Brief introduction to Integrating Peer Support Roles into Multidisciplinary Teams
Join Randy Morrison, MPPM, MPH, CIPSS, in this brief introduction to concepts and practices related to integrating peer support roles into multidisciplinary teams. This presentation will cover some core practices to integration by covering supervision structure, organizing team meetings to allow peer support fidelity, what communication is “OK” and what is avoided, and how to build team cultures that respect fidelity of peer support while not isolating the “peer supporters, and finally explore some examples of MaineCare approved documentation.
Learning Objectives:
- Provide a brief Introduction to Intentional Peer Support & Recovery Coaching
- Explore key elements of supervision, team meetings, communication, team building and documentation
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.
