Fostering Connection & Destigmatizing Mental Health for Caregivers: Peer Support
Institute for Healthcare Improvement - IHI (56:52min)
Description: "IHI Virtual Learning Hour"
How to Implement a Peer Support Program During a Crisis
American Medical Association (AMA) (58:40min)
Description: "Understand the importance of peer support, the fundamentals for operationalizing a peer-support program in health systems and practices, and how peer support can potentially change organizational culture–especially during the COVID-19 pandemic."
Helping Each Other In Times Of Crisis
NAMI (1hr 25min)
Description: "Peer support — individuals with lived experience helping other individuals with lived experience — is an important part of mental health recovery. Peer support specialists are often trained, certified and prepared to help with recovery, much like a therapist but with different schooling and credentials. In times of widespread crisis like our country is experiencing now, when the mental health field is overburdened, these specialists are more important than ever. "
Enhancing Personal Capacity for Wellness: Wellness in Peer Support – An Overview
SAMHSA (52:25min)
Description: "Hosted by SAMHSA’s Program to Achieve Wellness on July 24, 2017, this webinar is the first in a four-part series on enhancing personal capacity for wellness. The speakers – Johanna Bergan, Youth M.O.V.E. National; Cathy Cave, PAW Co-Director; and Peggy Swarbrick, PAW Senior Consultant, help the audience to develop an understanding of the importance of lived experiences and relationship-based roles of peers."
Enhancing Personal Capacity for Wellness | Wellness in Peer Support
SAMHSA (59:46min)
Description: "Hosted by SAMHSA’s Program to Achieve Wellness on July 31, 2017, this webinar is the second in a four-part series on enhancing personal capacity for wellness. The speakers – Johanna Bergan, Youth M.O.V.E. National, and Dr. Peggy Swarbrick, PAW Senior Consultant – explore techniques for increasing self-awareness, self-care, and sustaining empathy and connection in peer support roles."
Enhancing Personal Capacity for Wellness | Building an Organizational Culture of Wellness
SAMHSA (58:39min)
Description: "Hosted by SAMHSA’s Program to Achieve Wellness on August 7, 2017, this webinar is the third in a four-part series on enhancing personal capacity for wellness. The speakers – Johanna Bergan, Youth M.O.V.E. National and Cathy Cave, PAW Co-Director – talk with the audience about evidence-based or promising practices, including wellness models and methods for incorporating organizational wellness strategies to create a holistic work environment."
Enhancing Personal Capacity for Wellness | Incorporating Reflective Practices
SAMHSA (57:38min)
Description: "Hosted by SAMHSA’s Program to Achieve Wellness on August 14, 2017, this webinar is the final session in a four-part series on enhancing personal capacity for wellness. The speakers – Cathy Cave, PAW Co-Director and Dr. Margaret (Peggy) Swarbrick, PAW Senior Consultant – provide tips for incorporating reflective and co-reflective approaches in peer support. These reflective practices change one’s feelings of isolation to a sentiment of renewed hope."