Ethics: Role Modeling Recovery and Maintaining Boundaries

Ethics: Role Modeling Recovery and Maintaining Boundaries

2017 CPRS Conference

Workshops

11 am – Noon

Main Ballroom

Ethics: Role Modeling Recovery and Maintaining Boundaries

Sheryl McCormick

Tune up your understanding of Tennessee's CPRS Scope of Activities and Code of Ethics, reviewed with an emphasis on four of the most problematic ethical dilemmas. Learn how to choose strategies for avoiding ethical violations when CPRS's encounter challenging situations that impact their peer support work.

1 pm – 2 pm

Ballroom A

Partnering with the Faith Community

Dr. Monty Burks

The purpose of this workshop is to give Certified Peer Recovery Specialists information and tools to help them partner with the faith community through partnerships and collaborations and to better utilize Project Lifeline's regional coordinators as a resource to connect with Certified Recovery Congregations.

1 pm – 2 pm

Ballroom B

Recovery Courts and Certified Peers: A Perfect Partnership

Dr. Marie Crosson

Certified Peer Recovery Specialists offer a valuable and necessary perspective to support individuals in early recovery. Recovery courts, by design, work with individuals new to recovery for a lengthy period of time, helping those in early recovery learn and practice their "new normal" while still accountable to the justice system. Recovery court participants need connection to others in recovery, not only to develop new relationships but to engage in the recovery resources available in their communities. Explore the ways in which a CPRS can work in and/or with recovery courts.

1 pm – 2 pm

Ballroom C

The Dance of Recovery Brings People Together

Angela Thomas

Come, have fun, relax, and move your body while we explore the metaphors between dance and the unfolding of therapeutic relationships. In this workshop half of the participants will choose one of various therapeutic/helping roles such as peer specialist, counselor, psychiatrist, etc. The other half will choose the role of consumer. Dance partners will pair up and work together to create a unique dance that reflects the dynamics of the relationship, and the way the dance changes over time.

2:15 pm – 3:15 pm

Ballroom A

Cultural Understanding of the LGBT Community

Ken Barton

Certified Peer Recovery Specialists engage a diverse array of individuals in their work. This workshop will provide knowledge of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) community, an understanding of how this community is different from other communities, and effective ways of engaging members of the LGBT community. The workshop will include an interactive question-and-answer session.

2:15 pm – 3:15 pm

Ballroom B

Mental Health & Substance Abuse Parity: Getting What Is Rightfully Yours

Sita Diehl and Bonnie Hannah

Does your health plan deny mental health care more often than other care? Do you have to get an out of network mental health provider (and pay more), but other medical specialists are in network? These are signs that your health insurer may be violating federal law. Mental health parity is about equal insurance coverage for mental health care. In this workshop, learn your rights under federal law, how to identify when your plan may be out of compliance, and how to assert your parity rights. Learn what you can do to advocate for fair and equal coverage.

2:15 pm – 3:15 pm

Ballroom C

Engaging Youth in Their Own Recovery

KishaLedlow

The transition to adulthood can be an exciting but stressful process, and the challenges that typically come with this transition are even greater for those with mental health or substance use disorders. In fact, youth and young adults are at an increased risk of developing a mental health condition or substance use disorder, but they are the least likely population to seek help. This session will describe the unique needs of youth and young adults, discuss the importance of engaging them, and provide lessons learned from two initiatives serving them.

3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Main Ballroom

Motivational Interviewing

Stephanie Guthrie

Motivational Interviewing is a method that works on facilitating and engaging intrinsic motivation in order to reach self-identified goals of changed behavior. Certified Peer Recovery Specialists can hone their motivational interviewing skills in this session with Stephanie Guthrie, as she guides you through understanding what motivation is, what factors influence it, and look at how to help your members navigate the stages of change utilizing motivational interviewing. Also addressed will be utilizing motivational interviewing in a relapse stage.