NYAPRS Note: Follow the links below for the helpful and much-discussed webinars regarding the integration of peer staff in the workplace. These are excellent resources for any manager or administrator, no matter how long peer professionals have been included in your workplace!
Information on the recorded web seminars on “Best Practices for Effectively Integrating Peer Staff into the Workplace.”
This is the first of a two part series on integrating peer staff in the workplace. This first part will focus on who is a peer, what do peer staff do, what peer staff can and should do, how peer staff enhance the therapeutic alliance and specific suggestions for utilizing peer staff.
Link to Part one:
https://meetny.webex.com/meetny/lsr.php?RCID=4696ecf06fd94fa79465243bf2679d62
This is the second of a two part series on integrating peer staff in the workplace. This part will focus on what qualifications an employer should look for in a peer staff and teach some of the legal statutes that you can use when posting job announcements and during the interviewing process. Emphasis will also be on how to support peer staff once they’ve been hired and how to supervise peer staff. A focus on some common supervisory traps and how to avoid them will also be presented.
Link to Part two:
https://meetny.webex.com/meetny/lsr.php?RCID=34ec76a619594408a3d316097c4bb77c