April 20, 2017  - CPS Professional Development Networking Meeting

This is an established meeting for Certified Peer Specialists who are looking to find support and guidance in their professional development from other Certified Peer Specialists. It is also an opportunity to network, share resources, and hear about upcoming trainings, committee openings, and leadership and job opportunities. Guest speakers come on a fairly regular basis at the end of the meeting to share resources or collect input from CPSs.

May 18, 2017  - CPS Professional Development Networking Meeting

This is an established meeting for Certified Peer Specialists who are looking to find support and guidance in their professional development from other Certified Peer Specialists. It is also an opportunity to network, share resources, and hear about upcoming trainings, committee openings, and leadership and job opportunities. Guest speakers come on a fairly regular basis at the end of the meeting to share resources or collect input from CPSs.

This training is designed to take your skills as a CPS and apply them with justice-involved persons in recovery who may still be incarcerated, may be about to return to their community or are already living in the community. While some share this lived experience, others do not. We all, however, share in the desire to support a positive process of community reintegration.  The goal of this training is for you to gain the knowledge and skills that, woven together with your CPS backgrounds, will allow you to provide peer support to justice involved persons in recovery as they re-enter their communities in a way that is holistic, aware, ethical and effective. 

Location: MHASP
1211 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA
Online application: https://mhaspwufoo.wufoo.com/forms/m1xmhq5j0jusb5u/
Application deadline: May 30, 2017

This is an established meeting for Certified Peer Specialists who are looking to find support and guidance in their professional development from other Certified Peer Specialists. It is also an opportunity to network, share resources, and hear about upcoming trainings, committee openings, and leadership and job opportunities. Guest speakers come on a fairly regular basis at the end of the meeting to share resources or collect input from CPSs.

Topic: Keeping Recovery First - Recovering While Being a CPS - Facilitated by CPS speaker

Time: 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Location: Project Home

1515 Fairmount Avenue, Philadelphia, PA  19130

The WRAP Facilitator Training program is an intensive five day training designed for individuals who have experienced the Mental Health Recovery Education Curriculum designed by Mary Ellen Copeland and, who have developed and are using a Wellness Recovery Action Plan in their own lives (the two day WRAP Seminar I meets the pre-requisite for this training). This program teaches participants the skills necessary to become facilitators of the Copeland Mental Health Recovery Education Curriculum and of WRAP Groups. 

The WRAP Facilitator Training focuses on all aspects of successful preparation for implementing the Copeland Mental Health Recovery Education curriculum and WRAP groups. Training participants receive the Mental Health Recovery Education Curriculum Manual (including WRAP) as well as a CD-ROM complete with teaching material in the format of power point presentations and overhead projection slides.

Individual participants will complete a brief application to certify they meet the pre-requisite training and experience criteria. Note: This criterion is the standard set by Mary Ellen Copeland for WRAP group facilitation.