A Deeper Dive – Integrating Peer Support roles into Multidisciplinary Teams
Join Randy Morrison, MPPM, MPH, CIPSS, as he explores how to integrate Intentional Peer Support roles into clinical settings and covers some of the common challenges that peer supporters encounter. This training will cover some of the basics of Intentional Peer Support and other common peer support models. Focusing on integration, this training will dive into supervision structures and practices, how to organize team meetings with peer support fidelity, training, communication between roles, and multi-disciplinary team building that is mindful of “othering”, and MaineCare-approved peer support documentation. This is an interactive training that focuses on tangible strategies to integrate peer supporters into clinical settings.
Learning Objectives:
- Provide an introduction to Intentional Peer Support and other peer support models
- Exploring key elements of supervision, team meetings, communication, team building and documentation
- Considering and discussing common challenges related to integration and strategies to navigate those challenges in alignment with peer support practices.
Speaker
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Randy Morrison MPPM MPH CIPSSRandy Morrison (he/him) is a person who personally understands the challenges of navigating substance use and mental health concerns. He is a Certified Intentional Peer Support (IPS) Specialist, IPS Trainer, and CCAR Recovery Coach trainer; and has a master’s in public health and a master’s in policy, planning, and management. Randy spent over seven years leading the growth and implementation of peer support programs across Maine’s largest healthcare system before becoming a full-time trainer and consultant. During his time as a peer support director, he grew a peer support team of 3 peer supporters to over 65, the largest in Maine at the time. The programs spanned substance use peer support, mental health peer support, youth peer support, and family/parent peer support. Those positions worked in a variety of settings as well, including emergency departments, primary care, behavioral health clinics, youth early intervention programs, case management programs, and four peer support centers. Randy was a co-author of a manual for integrating peer support into multidisciplinary teams as well as contributed to a manual on integrating peer support roles into “alternative courts”. Randy is passionate about peer support fidelity and creating systems that center the people utilizing them.
