Core Courses
This course contains an overview of self-help plans, the elements of a plan, the process of creating a plan, and strategies for working with others on creating a plan for themselves.
Building on Introduction to Person-Centered Principles, this course covers the elements of a service plan and roles peer providers can play in helping to incorporate recovery-oriented person-centered (ROPC) approaches into the service planning process.
This course introduces you to common documents used when delivering peer services. By the end of the course, you will be able to write an effective progress note using a standardized format and develop an incident report.
In this course, you will learn engagement strategies, i.e., preparing, attending, observing, and listening, and will analyze reflective responding techniques, i.e., response to content, response to feeling, response to meaning, and personalized response.
This course helps you obtain a basic understanding of human rights protection in New York State. The content is designed to assist you in identifying the primary functions of the New York State Division of Human Rights.
Person-centered principles begin by getting to know and deeply understand each person to determine what is most important to them as the basis for a collaborative working relationship. By the end of the course, you will be able to identify and give examples of values and strategies of person-centered practices.
This course discusses the Olmstead Act, which states that segregation in institutions constitutes discrimination based on disability. Further, this course describes the “integration mandate” of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) that requires public agencies to provide services in the most integrated setting possible.
This course describes peer support and its origins, the difference between peer support and peer-delivered services, a framework to categorize and organize supports and services across a wide spectrum of behavioral health settings, and the research studies that led to naming peer support an evidence-based practice.
The concept of mental health recovery is controversial and this course provides an examination of the concept of recovery, exploring how recovery is being used in current practice, and offering a glimpse at what the future may hold as the body of recovery-oriented knowledge, whole health support, and person-centered practice continues to grow.
The goal of this course is to provide a multicultural awareness of the history of the movement for social justice and human rights for people with psychiatric histories.
The course provides a working knowledge of the principles and types of advocacy and how to promote systemic change with confidence.
This course begins with the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the first major federal legislative effort to secure equal access and treatment for people with disabilities. The course then gives a thorough review of the Americans with Disabilities Act (Titles I through V) as well as the ADA Amendments Act.
In this course, you will examine the prevalence of trauma and its impact on physical and emotional wellness, analyze principles of trauma-informed practices and their application in peer services that support recovery, and evaluate the effect of trauma on how we view our cultural experiences and the lens in which we view the world.
