In addition to offering PeerZone workshops to the community we are now coordinating the licensing including the facilitation training for peer supporters.
Licensing & Training of Peer Supporters to Facilitate Workshops
The Benefits
- PeerZone Workshops adds value to service delivery.
- It’s an innovation for services that invest in it.
- It’s a practice tool and support structure for workers who facilitate it.
- It helps recovery outcomes for service users who participate in it.
- PeerZone Workshops is a recovery opportunity for participants:
- It invites them to rebuild a more positive story of their lives.
- It offers tools for whole of life wellbeing.
- It creates a community of mutual support.
Workshops
Shared Learning for Wellbeing!
PeerZone Workshops are a series of up to 20 three-hour peer-led workshops for people who experience mental distress and addiction. The workshops provide a fun, interactive and safe structure for participants to share their experiences, learn self-management and expand their horizons.
How it Works
PeerZone facilitators are usually peer workers whose employer pays for a license to provide PeerZone Workshops. PeerZone runs a four-day training and ongoing support for peer workers to be PeerZone facilitators, who deliver the workshops to people in their service or community. In Ontario, Krasman Centre facilitates these trainings.
PeerZone facilitators are usually peer workers whose employer pays for a license to provide PeerZone Workshops. PeerZone runs a four-day training and ongoing support for peer workers to be PeerZone facilitators, who deliver the workshops to people in their service or community. In Ontario, Krasman Centre facilitates these trainings. Post-training support includes monthly group teleconferences, advice on demand, delivery of paper or electronic promotional materials, analysis and feedback of workshop evaluations, improvements to workshops and access to our new mobile friendly website.
The PeerZone facilitator course and support services is not a vocational training in peer support but it enables facilitators to utilize the PeerZone workshops in their work. Facilitators come away with a tangible program that benefits the whole service. Facilitators also have access to the PeerZone Toolkit recovery resource hub.
To learn more about PeerZone workshops visit out the website at: www.peerzone.info.
To learn more about PeerZone in Ontario, contact Theresa Claxton-Wali at t.claxton@krasmancentre.com or 647-926-9552.
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