Join us for an informative and engaging gathering on Ethics and Boundaries for Certified Parent Peer Specialists. This session will explore the critical role ethics play in supporting families, as well as the importance of establishing and maintaining healthy professional boundaries while upholding the highest ethical standards in their practice.
Paula Buege
Paula Buege is a dedicated professional with a profound commitment to empowering and supporting lived experience experts in driving transformative change. Drawing from her own lived expertise in multiple systems, Paula’s career objective is to meet the needs of constituents served by fostering a collaborative and inclusive environment. She aims to ensure that the insights and perspectives of lived experience experts are integral to shaping policies and practices that promote recovery and well-being.
Paula has been training those with lived experience to become Wisconsin Certified Peer and Parent Peer Specialists. She continues to consult and train agencies, organizations, and individuals related to mental health, substance use, serving families, child welfare, juvenile justice, and criminal justice. Paula infuses her lived experience and wellness journey into her work, sharing over 25 years of experience in multiple roles and systems to support others on their wellness journey.
Lynn Maday-Bigboy
Lynn Maday-Bigboy serves as a peer coordinator who brings her own lived experience with mental health and substance use to her work. You can often find her in the community, collaborating with others to amplify the voices of those with lived experience while exemplifying peer values. As a member of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and part of the turtle clan, she embraces her role as both a teacher and a helper.
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This presentation explores the often-overlooked experiences of everyday grief — the emotional responses to loss that doesn’t always receive public acknowledgment that has deep personal impacts. From breakups and job loss to political disillusionment and changing life roles, grief is not limited to death. This session will unpack how grief manifests in common life transitions, how it affects our mental and physical well-being, and why it deserves space in our conversations and healing practices. Through relatable examples, psychological insights, and practical strategies, attendees will learn how to identify grief in their own lives, validate their emotional experiences, and adopt healthy coping tools. Whether you’re personally navigating change or supporting others, this presentation offers compassionate guidance for honoring loss and finding resilience in everyday life.
Shae Rising
Shae (he/him) is a Two-Spirit person who is a devoted parent, husband, and community advocate. Shae’s resilience in overcoming systemic barriers and trauma has become a source of strength and inspiration to the people he serves. Shae works in the nonprofit sector serving veterans, Muslim LGBTQ2+ individuals, and many others that deal with multiple diagnosis. An artist, musician, reiki practitioner, personal trainer – Shae wears so many hats! He channels his creativity into self-expression and community building. His life has been shaped by both struggle and service, and he believes in using his experiences to uplift and support others.
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CEHs: Attendance at the CPS & CPPS Community of Practice and some Supervisors of CPS & CPPS Community of Practice gatherings and completion of post-gathering evaluations will earn you 1.5 hours of continuing education credit good for recertification purposes in Wisconsin. The evaluation will be sent to the email with which you register to attend a Community of Practice gathering.
Like the community of practice gatherings in Wisconsin? Want to expand your learning in a national context?
Please check out the communities of practice hosted by the Peer Recovery Center of Excellence (click here), which are structured very similarly to the ones in Wisconsin.
