Ips an alternative approach 2014 intentional peer support. It is a process where both people or a group of people use the relationship to look at things from new angles, develop greater awareness of personal and relational patterns, and to support and challenge each other as we try new things. Intentional peer support weekly colearning group peerly human. A guide to advancing and implementing peerrun behavioral. Description by shery mead, msw updated 2017 188 pages. Apr 17, 2016 shery mead on intentional peer support on the future of mental health.
Apply to support specialist, certified peer specialist, peer counselor and more. Jul 16, 2019 a peer support specialist has lived experience with mental health issues. Intentional peer support ips is a way of thinking about and inviting powerful, transformative relationships. Intentional peer support is a way of thinking about and inviting transformative relationships. The peer specialists pocket resource for mental health. In a highly interactive environment, participants learn the tasks and principles of ips, examine assumptions about who they. See more of intentional peer support aotearoa nz on facebook. Intentional peer support provides a powerful framework for creating relationships where both people learn and. And for some people, it can create an important sense of hope. The workbook can be downloaded on this site below or ordered online. This revised edition of the intentional teacher guides teachers to balance both childguided and adultguided learning experiences that respond to childrens interests and focus on what they need to learn to be successful in school and life. The peer empowerment program pep is a toolkit that provides materials and directions you need to start a peer to peer mentoring program within a communitybased human service organization. It includes appendices for peer support warmlines, peerrun respite programs, and resources for peers working in the mental health system.
The purpose of the recovery to practice next steps training is to bring together peer support providers from a variety of places geography, philosophy, training, lived experiences, educational backgrounds, and perspectives to share the richness of their lived experiences as peer providers, learn with and from each other. A personal retrospective shery mead the door of the mental hospital locks noisily behind me and i realize that i have succumbed. Its fantastic stuff and being a cps has enabled me to grow in my recovery and how i relate. A central part of our core training, it includes appendices for peer support warmlines, peer run respite programs, and resources for. Here, chris hansen explores how this important process can help people think about and grow their practice of ips. Shery meads services settings all over the world to be intentional about the way the connect and build mutual relationships. It operates from recovery philosophies, aiming for deep, transformative relationships. Intentional peer support specialist jobs, employment. They also offer trainings locally, nationally, and internationally on a variety of topics. A peer support specialist has lived experience with mental health issues. The pep toolkit provides you with guidance on planning and customizing your own peer empowerment program pep, using the suggested framework. Intentional peer support a poem by selina welborn ncmhr. An alternative approach is an innovative curriculum that explores ways to create mutually supportive relationships where both parties. Peer support 101 peer support 101 is an opportunity to take a peek at intentional peer support, learn about the tasks of peer support and hear about peer support in maine.
If i could write a poem about intentional peer support, it would be about social change id call it social change. Peer support is a key concept in the recovery approach and in consumeroperated services programs. Shery mead on intentional peer support psychology today. An alternative approach, ips core training is a 5day introduction to this innovative framework and is designed to have you practicing right away. Its been five minutes and already im a mental patient. Intentional peer support 187 jerusalem rd bristol, vt. Can you tell us a little bit about intentional peer support. Intentional peer support is a powerful framework for thinking about and creating transformative relationships. The future of mental health interview series continues with shery mead on intentional peer support. Intentional peer support ips was developed in the 1990s under the leadership of shery mead, and has continued to develop under the direction of chris hansen.
A central part of the ips core training, it includes appendices for peer support warmlines, peer run respite programs, and resources for peers by shery mead, msw. Peer support is a relatively new form of funded mental health service provision, in which services are provided by current or former service users. Ips provides a powerful framework for creating relationships where both people learn and grow together. Practitioners learn to use relationships to see things from new angles, develop greater awareness of personal and relational patterns, and support and challenge each other in trying new things. Each week we focus on a different topic from the ips workbook. Non peer staff and other stakeholders often have concerns about employing peer support providers. We offer a range of trainings to examine and practice what is necessary to build mutual support. A central part of our core training, it includes appendices for peer support warmlines, peerrun respite programs, and resources for peers working in both alternative and traditional mental health settings. Posted on august 26, 2014 march 20, 2017 by adrian hoppel. Peer support workers are not for promoting treatment. Intentional peer support is a way of thinking about and inviting transformative relationships between people.
Their attitudes are a key determinant in the success or failure of involving peer support providers within a health care organization. Peer support is intentional being intentional means that we come into the relationship with a specific purpose in mind. Intentional peer support 187 jerusalem rd bristol vt 05443. To order a hard copy of the participant workbook online. Intentional peer support provides a powerful framework for creating relationships where both people learn and grow together. Intentional peer support ips is a methodology of practicing peer support that focuses on developing a relationship based on trust, mutuality and an understanding of each others culture, upbringing and life experiences that contribute to how we see the world as individuals. A central part of the ips core training, it includes appendices for peer support warmlines, peerrun respite programs, and resources for peers working in both alternative and traditional mental health settings. The full book can be ordered through our bookstore. In a highly interactive environment, participants learn the tasks and principles of ips, examine assumptions about who they are, and explore. If you become six months or more behind in your fieldwork, you will need to take a written and oral exam.
International centre of excellence in peer support. The book looked at peer support in a way that is contrary to intentional peer support. Ips provides a powerful framework for creating relationships where. It commonly refers to an initiative consisting of trained supporters although it can be provided by peers without training, and can take a number of forms such as peer mentoring, reflective listening reflecting content andor feelings, or counseling. Cares certified addiction recovery empowerment specialist the only mental health certifications that are based on lived experience rather than a college degree. An alternative approach 2014 7 peer support is about creating relationships that make it okay for us not just to be in peer relationships, but to use them as a tool to take a bigger look at how weve learned to operate in the world. This is the mutuality principle taught by shery mead, the inventor of intentional peer support. This book supports the effective implementation of peer support and the evidencebased wrap peer group intervention. Peer support can occur within, outside or around traditional mental health services and programs, between two people or in groups. No worries supporting workplaces to respond well to mental distress. It would be about a new vision of interacting with peers forgetting what we dont want, envisioning what we do, living well in the present, and creating a better tomorrow. Peer support is about social change intentional peer support. Who this item is for if you are a peer supporter, a certified peer support specialist, someone who supervises peer support staff, or a wrap facilitator, this book is essential reading for understanding the powerful combination of.
In a highly interactive environment, participants learn the tasks and principles of ips. Intentional peer support ips training certifies participants with lived experience as peer support specialists pss. Oregon health authority oha recognizes our curriculum as an approved training program that qualifies participants who complete our course for state certification as traditional health workers thw focused in adult mental health. Peer support occurs when people provide knowledge, experience, emotional, social or practical help to each other. Oct 11, 2018 each week we focus on a different topic from the ips workbook. Sep 12, 2017 intentional peer support is used by both cps and cares. The peer empowerment program pep is a toolkit that provides materials and directions you need to start a peertopeer mentoring program within a communitybased human service organization. An alternative approach kindle edition by shery mead. Intentional peer support meet your next favorite book. An alternative approach first chapter the first chapter of this innovative workbook and curriculum is now available for free here. Intentional peer support is about creating a powerbalanced context in. What are the best ways to support learning in the early years. No purchase is necessary the relevant text is made available at each meeting.
The four tasks and three principlesfirst contact and. Intentional peer support allows us to have different conversations with one another, which then changes the dominant social and political assumptions. Ips is used across the world in community, peer support, and human services settings, and is a tool for community development with bro ad appeal to. An alternative approach is an innovative curriculum that explores ways to create mutually supportive relationships. It is in these conversations that ips can accomplish its real purpose. It is a process where both people or a group of people use the relationship to look. For nearly twenty years, ips has been inspiring and training people in community, peer support, and human services settings all over the world to be intentional about the way they connect and build mutual relationships.
An alternative approach is an innovative curriculum that explores ways to create mutually supportive relationships where both parties learn and grow together. They are for listening to the peer and supporting them on the path that makes sense for them. Intentional peer support aotearoa nz posts facebook. Peer support 101 is a 3hour class offered to anyone interested in learning more about peer support. Participant workbook recovery to practice peer specialist.
Peer specialist toolkit implementing peer support services. In ips, we use our relationships to look at things from new angles. We use the reading to focus our attention and spark discussion about important concepts in peer support. Intentional peer support is a way of thinking about purposeful relationships. Peer support services in vha this document is a collaborative project between the visn 1 new england mirecc peer education center, and the visn 4 mirecc peer resource center. Freedom from psychiatric drugs e book and paperback. Intentional peer support international mental health. An alternative approach, the core training is a 5day introduction to this innovative framework and is designed to have you practicing right away. Intentional peer support coreflection in intentional.
Intentional peer support provides a powerful framework for creating relationships where. Peer support workers offer the dignity of risk and. The person named above is applying to participate in the maine certified intentional peer support specialist program. This program is designed to train participants in the tasks, values and philosophies of intentional peer support and prepare them to engage in intentional peer support in their lives and community. While peer support assumes the characteristics of any healthy relationship, there is also a specific. An alternative approach book intentional peer support. Based on shery meads book, intentional peer support. For all the latest news in and around the intentional peer support network in the london borough of sutton.
Sherry mead developed the model of intentional peer support ips. What good peer support looks like wellness wordworks. Intentional peer support ips core training peer support. We support and challenge each other as we try new things. A central part of the ips core training, it includes appendices for peer support warmlines, peer run respite programs, and resources for peers working in both. Sharing stories of mental illness to support others in a similar situation is known in the mental health sector as peer support. Ips is used across the world in community, peer support, and human services settings, and is a tool for community. Peer workers learn to use relationships to see things from new angles, develop greater awareness of personal and relational patterns, and support and challenge each other in trying new things. A central part of the ips core training, it includes appendices for peer support warmlines, peerrun respite programs, and resources for peers working in both.
In this process we learn to use relationships to see ourselves from new angles, develop greater awareness of personal and relational patterns, and support and challenge each other into trying out new ways of seeing and knowing. Matthew chinman, kevin henze, and patricia sweeney. These relationships can help to see things from new angles, develop greater awareness of personal and relational patterns, and support and challenge each other in trying new things. They use that experience and professional training to guide others to recovery. Peer support is increasingly being offered through digital health like text messaging and smartphone apps. Oct 09, 20 in this way, the training becomes a support network for the peer supporters and an incubator for best practices in peer support. A central part of the ips core training, it includes appendices for peer support warmlines. In this way, the training becomes a support network for the peer supporters and an incubator for best practices in peer support.
Ips is a way of thinking about and being in purposeful relationships. It turned peer support workers into yes men for the system. An alternative approach, our core training is a 5day introduction to this innovative framework and is designed to have you practicing right away. An alternative approach book ips workbook cover ips workbook cover published june 30, 2014 at dimensions 416. We develop a better awareness of personal and relational patterns.
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