CAFE TA Center Trainings

This section includes links to articles about recent trainings and webinars here on our website. Each article includes a link to the relevant recording.

• Experts by Experience: Paving the Way for Forensic Peer Support – This webinar provides a platform for four experts with lived experience to discuss peer support for people in the justice system, unique challenges and opportunities in the forensic space, and strategies to change minds and grow this essential peer support discipline.
• Recovery High Schools: Fostering Resilience and Healing – This webinar examines the role of Recovery High Schools in supporting the mental health and wellbeing of transition-age youth through a conversation with the Executive Director of a Recovery HS and three of their students.
• Master Your Personal Narrative: Storytelling As A Leadership Tool – This six-part webinar series broadens the idea of the personal recovery narrative and discusses how you can use your story as a leadership tool in different contexts, including advocacy, executive/organizational leadership, and agency-level systems change.
• So You’re Ready to Work, Now What? – This 12-part interactive employment training series is designed to address challenges people with mental health conditions face in finding and maintaining employment by equipping attendees with the skills and strategies they need to find and maintain employment.
• Peer-Run Crisis Alternatives: Warm Lines, Respites, Wellness Centers, Community Response Teams, and PAD’s – This webinar and Learning Community series presents an overview of five peer- and recovery-centered crisis alternatives: peer-operated warm lines, peer respites, peer-run wellness centers, community response teams, and the use of psychiatric advance directives (PAD’s).
• Exploring an Important Intersection within The Systems of Care: Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and Mental Health Disabilities – This webinar and Learning Community series explores the intersection of psychiatric disabilities and intellectual or developmental disabilities, including common experiences and priorities, and ways to develop a shared vision of person-centered systems of care.
• Family Mental Health Learning Community – This Learning Community includes conversation about how instead of unsuccessfully trying to get a family member in distress to engage in treatment, blaming themselves, and feeling guilty, families can empower their family members to find the recovery path that works for them, provide support that meets their needs, and make life better for everyone involved.
• Integrated Care, Integrating Peer Support – This webinar shares information about integrated care models that incorporate medical health and mental health services with a focus on peer support as an integral component.
• What’s this Recovery, Wellness and Well-Being Thing? How to Support Yourself and Your Family Member – This webinar explores how family members of youth and adults with mental health conditions can effectively support their family member’s recovery and improve whole family wellness.
• The Time is NOW: Peer-Run Organizations and Integrated Care Learning Community – This Learning Community provides an opportunity to continue the ongoing conversation about how peers and peer organizations can position themselves to promote recovery values and drive systems change through integrated care.
• The Time is NOW: Peer-Run Organizations and Integrated Care Webinar – This webinar looks at the challenges and opportunities presented by integrated care, and the implications for mental health peers and peer-run organizations in their efforts to promote recovery values and drive systems change.
• Self-Disclosure, Representation, and Empowerment Learning Community – This Learning Community examines the decisions people with lived experience of mental health conditions make about how they talk about their own mental health, how mental health is represented in our public discourse, and how people can create a space for their own empowerment and impact the way mental health is perceived.
• A Foundation for Your Finances: A Review of the Basic Building Blocks of Personal Financial Sustainability for Peers and Consumers Learning Community – In this Learning Community, participants learned from each other about how to overcome challenges related to personal finance that can be exacerbated by their lived experience.
• Destigmatizing Mental Health, Inside and Out: A Youth Perspective – In this webinar, one young leader, shares her leadership story, explaining how she has confronted her own internal hesitancy to recognize her mental health needs, as well as the stigma that discourages people from openly discussing mental health in their communities, homes, and workplaces.
• Peer Leadership Learning Community – This Learning Community explores the topic of peer leadership, and how people with mental health conditions can turn their lived experience into positive change in their communities.
• A Foundation for Your Finances: A Review of the Basic Building Blocks of Personal Financial Sustainability for Peers and Consumers Webinar – This webinar covers financial literacy and banking basics.
• Leadership Roles for Peers and Peer Specialists . . . within Peer-Run Organizations, the CPS Industry, and the Peer Community – This webinar explores leadership in the mental health lived experience context and examines different leadership paths, including roles within peer-led organizations, promoting the value of lived experience and peer support to potential partners, and creating a community of recovery through networking and service.