159 - Doubling Down on Peer Support: An Opioid Treatment Program’s Approach to Utilizing Peer Support in Community-Based Services - No CE's for this session
Hushabye Nursery Arizona State University Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Session Description: Peer Support Specialist have proven to be an effective tool in lowering the anxiety of individuals struggling with substance use disorder to enter treatment along with staying engaged in services. Over the last five years, Opioid Treatment Programs along with other substance abuse programs have adopted the practice of supporting their clients with Peer Support Specialists. The presentation will discuss several projects around the country that are demonstrating positive outcomes employing Peer Support Specialist as the main workforce to support Emergency Department responses, Fire Department collaboratives, rural mobile health clinics, Department of Child Safety Dependency Cases, street-based harm reduction services, along with Jail and prison in-reach. Workshop attendees will learn and evaluate projects in Arizona, Wisconsin, North Dakota, Texas, and Ohio.
Learning Objectives:
After this activity participants should be able to
Define and evaluate the benefits of adopting and implementing Peer Support Specialist into their agency.
Assess existing projects that utilize peer support and identifying the benefits of engaging folks in the community positive by providing a direct line to treatment, and improving community outcomes.
Evaluate their own community and how their agency can utilize peer supports to engage with those seeking help with substance use disorder discussing sequential Intercept Model and Collective Impact.
