November 2024 CPS & CPPS Supervisor Community of Practice
Rylee Jenich (They/Them) is the peer program manager at Solstice House Peer Run Respite & Warmline. As a radical queer harm reductionist, they seek to subvert systems of oppression by building alternative pathways towards healing, connection and love.
This training offers an alternative approach to peer supervision, one centered in connection, agency & accountability. A unique practice focused on relationship building as a pathway towards a liberated peer workspace. Together we will envision ways of honoring the fidelity of peer support best practices as we build connections that challenge and protect against systemic barriers.
We invite you to please fill out the evaluation survey link (click here) if you attended this community of practice gathering or if you watch the recording. The survey will close at 4:30pm on Thursday, December 5th. Certificates of Participation will be sent to those completing the evaluation form by 4:30pm on December 12th, 2024. No evaluation surveys will be accepted for CEH credit after the evaluation survey’s closing date/time.
This website is managed and maintained by staff at Access to Independence working on the Wisconsin Peer Specialist Employment Initiative. The words, views, and values presented herein are not necessarily representative of the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.
October 2024 CPS & CPPS Supervisor Community of Practice
Shae Rising (He/Him They/Them) works in the Public Health and the mental health field with an emphasis of focused work on minoritized populations including minorities, Muslims, and the LGBTQ+ community. Writer, artist, healer, life coach, and motivational speaker. Shae is the Program Director at the nation’s first Veteran Respite, RR House and a Supervisor of the Uplift Wisconsin Statewide Warmline. Shae has professional publications in Community Health Assessment work with the North Shore Health Department, College Sexual Violence Research publication and symposium presentations as well as artistic works.
Peer mentors regularly work with individuals and families in crisis and our organizations are often in a state of change, which makes it difficult to create routine and plan ahead – so everything feels like a crisis.
At CC We Adapt we have been using Stephen Covey’s four quadrants to help us manage our way out of a crisis orientation to help peer mentors become more impactful with participants and help our organization become more effective. Our goal is to replace the common practices of time management with more highly effective practices.
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We invite you to please fill out the evaluation survey link (click here) if you attended this community of practice gathering or if you watch the recording. The survey will close at 4:30pm on Thursday, November 7th. Certificates of Participation will be sent to those completing the evaluation form by 4:30pm on November 14th, 2024. No evaluation surveys will be accepted for CEH credit after the evaluation survey’s closing date/time.
This website is managed and maintained by staff at Access to Independence working on the Wisconsin Peer Specialist Employment Initiative. The words, views, and values presented herein are not necessarily representative of the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.
August 2024 CPS & CPPS Supervisor Community of Practice
Thursday, August 22nd, 2024 from 1:30 – 3:00 pm CT
Abigail is the Executive Director at The La Crosse Lighthouse Inc, a small (501c3) non-profit organization in La Crosse, WI that operates The La Crosse Lighthouse Peer Run Respite and Warmline. The La Crosse Lighthouse offers 24/7 phone support and 1–7 night respite stays for individuals who have experienced mental health and/or substance use challenges and other life interrupting events. Being a strong advocate for equity and social change, Abigail took the opportunity as Executive Director to reorganize the structure of The La Crosse Lighthouse to reflect grassroots peer support approaches, greater pay equity and shared responsibility.
Abigail received her Wisconsin Peer Specialist Certification in 2021 and Intentional Peer Support Certificate in 2023. She was named the 2024 Shining Star recipient from the Mental Health Coalition of the Greater La Crosse Area and presented at the 2024 Wisconsin Peer Recovery Conference on Challenging Organizational Norms and Paving the Way for Equity. Her experience includes navigating long term substance use and mental health challenges, incarceration, surviving domestic violence and PTSD. She holds a strong knowing that personal experiences offer a value that formal education cannot duplicate. Abigail believes in offering alternatives to clinical and medical model interventions for those navigating a self-determined wellness path.
Peer work gives voice to those that have lived through difficult life interrupting events and proves there are many pathways to self-defined wellness. In her personal time, Abigail gardens, plays video games and most importantly, loves her animal cohabitants.
This presentation will challenge what we have come to accept as normal hierarchal organizational structure and explore using the skillsets that already exist within our teams to trim the budget, provide opportunities for growth and lessen the wage gap between administrative and direct staff. Seeing all members as skilled contributors cultivates innovation and community. We will learn how respecting all positions as essential will inevitably build and grow a strong organization, impacting staff turnover and job satisfaction. Peers are a wealth of knowledge and recognizing those skills while providing an opportunity to use them builds the peer, builds the organization and builds confidence that we are capable. Together we can find a better way.
We invite you to please fill out the evaluation survey link (click here) if you attended this community of practice gathering or if you watch the recording. The survey will close at 4:30pm on Thursday, September 5th. Certificates of Participation will be sent to those completing the evaluation form by 4:30pm on September 12th. No evaluation surveys will be accepted for CEH credit after the evaluation survey’s closing date/time.
This website is managed and maintained by staff at Access to Independence working on the Wisconsin Peer Specialist Employment Initiative. The words, views, and values presented herein are not necessarily representative of the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.
July 2024 CPS & CPPS Supervisor Community of Practice
In this presentation, we will build a shared understanding of harm reduction– what it is, how we can embrace it with our peers, and in our own lives. With this shared language, we will explore how different liberation movements have shaped current harm reduction practices, and how community-centered approaches to harm reduction can be a lifeline for marginalized folks. Together, we will find ways that we can continue to honor the legacies of those before us by continuing their work today!
We invite you to please fill out the evaluation survey link (click here) if you attended this community of practice gathering or if you watch the recording. The survey will close at 4:30pm on Thursday, August 8th. Certificates of Participation will be sent to those completing the evaluation form by 4:30pm on August 15th, 2024. No evaluation surveys will be accepted for CEH credit after the evaluation survey’s closing date/time.
This website is managed and maintained by staff at Access to Independence working on the Wisconsin Peer Specialist Employment Initiative. The words, views, and values presented herein are not necessarily representative of the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.
May 2024 Supervisor’s Community of Practice
In this 2nd part series focusing on peer supervision, we will be peeling back the layers of depth as to what occurs on peer-led teams. Participants will hear about overcoming supervision challenges in peer-led groups with discussions around community grief, personal grief, fostering individual wellness journeys, burnout, self-care, staff retention, and additional impactful trainings pertinent to the peer-led teams’ specific work. We will discuss how we keep the fidelity of peer work through conversations in supervision when addressing issues or concerns.
We invite you to please fill out the evaluation survey link (click here) if you attended this community of practice gathering or if you watch the recording. The survey will close at 4:30pm on Thursday, June 6th. Certificates of Participation will be sent to those completing the evaluation form by 4:30pm on June 13th, 2024. No evaluation surveys will be accepted for CEH credit after the evaluation survey’s closing date/time.
This website is managed and maintained by staff at Access to Independence working on the Wisconsin Peer Specialist Employment Initiative. The words, views, and values presented herein are not necessarily representative of the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.
