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CAFE TAC Presents: Advocating for Peer Specialist Positions
The CAFE TA Center is pleased to announce its newest online training, Workforce Development: Advocating for Peer Support Specialist Positions. Within the mental health community, the value of peer specialists and their ability to connect with others by virtue of their combination of lived experience and expertise is relatively well-known. However, among funders, providers and other segments of the healthcare system, peer specialists are not always viewed as valuable professionals that can improve outcomes for people with mental health needs. Workforce Development: Advocating for Peer Support Specialist Positions seeks to address this disconnect by offering information on the positive impacts …
Workforce Development: Advocating for Peer Support Specialist Positions
The CAFE TA Center is pleased to present its newest online training, Workforce Development: Advocating for Peer Support Specialist Positions. While the many benefits of peer support are well-known in the peer specialist community, they are less understood in the healthcare system and among the general public. Workforce Development: Advocating for Peer Support Specialist Positions provides tools to help advocates highlight the positive impact of peer support, and convince others of the value that peer specialists provide. Please check it out today! This training is presented as a pre-recorded slide show, and is also available as a text-only web page with a …
About The CAFE TA Center
The CAFÉ TA Center is a program of The Family Café, a cross-disability organization that has been connecting individuals with information, training and resources since 1998. The Center is supported by SAMHSA to operate one of its five national technical assistance centers; providing technical assistance, training, and resources that facilitate the restructuring of the mental health system through effective consumer directed approaches for adults with serious mental illnesses across the country.
We Exist to Help You
The CAFÉ TA Center is committed to providing quality training to consumers and advocates throughout the country. Consumers in the community need the right knowledge and tools to effectively organize, speak for themselves, and thrive in their daily lives. Thanks to the technology available, it has become relatively easy to connect with consumers and advocates and share resources without having to ask people to interrupt their daily routines by traveling to attend training.
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The CAFÉ TA Center is committed to connecting consumers, advocates and organizations with information and resources that can make a real difference for them, regardless of where they come from. That’s why we have created this section, to house those resources that partners, experts, peers and advocates and developed and chosen to share with others. We truly believe that our advocacy and capacity can be greatly enhanced by working together, not only across states and SAMHSA programs, but also across the entire spectrum of healthcare and human services advocacy.