Understanding the Peer Support Certification Landscape in Maine

Join Randy Morrison, MPPM, MPH, CIPSS, for this two-hour presentation will cover each of the four (4) core peer support certifications in the State of Maine. This includes reviewing CCAR Recovery Coach training and certification, Intentional Peer Support training and certification, Parent Peer Support training and certification, and Youth Peer Connect training and certification. The presentation will also identify some of the key relational aspects of each model that guide the building of the peer support relationship, such as principles, values, and core concepts. The presentation will also cover the similarities in peer support roles across these models.

Learning Objectives:

  • Participants will learn about the four (4) core certifications for peer support in Maine (youth, parent, mental health, and substance use peer support)
  • Participants will be introduced to the key elements of each of the peer support training models in Maine
  • Participants will be able to articulate the similarities between each peer support model

Audience:

Prescribing Clinicians and their teams

Continuing Medical Education:

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the Hanley Center for Health Leadership and Education and CCSME. The Hanley Center for Health Leadership and Education is accredited by the Maine Medical Association Committee on Continuing Medical Education and Accreditation to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Hanley Center for Health Leadership and Education designates this regularly scheduled series for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit ™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

*Nurses and Nurse Practitioners will be awarded a certificate of participation with a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit ™.

This course has been approved by Co-Occurring Collaborative Serving Maine (CCSME), as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for 1 educational credits. NAADAC Provider #324712, CCSME is responsible for all aspects of the programming.

Contact Hours 1 contact hours for social workers, licensed clinical professional counselors, and behavioral health professionals.

1 Category 1 Contact hours for psychologists. CCSME is a pre-approved sponsor and provider of Professional Education Activities for Psychologists.

1 contract hours CHES. CCSME is a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission of Health Education Credentialing, Inc.

Co-Occurring Collaboration Serving Maine

Speaker

  • Randy Morrison MPPM MPH CIPSS
    Randy Morrison MPPM MPH CIPSS

    Randy 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.

Date

Feb 24 2026
Expired!

Time

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Location

Webinar

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