SAMHSA’s Bringing Recovery Supports to Scale Technical Assistance Center Strategy (BRSS TACS) invites you to join a conversation with experts about how organizations new to providing peer support services can effectively supervise and support peer support workers. All workers need supervision, and good supervision can play a key role in helping peers integrate successfully into new work settings.

Organizations unaccustomed to providing peer support services can improve services and employee satisfaction by implementing best practices for supervising and supporting peer workers. Our presenters will discuss how to apply practical supervision strategies that support peer workers’ professional development in different settings.

Join us for this free, interactive virtual event moderated by Lonnetta Albight, BRSS TACS Subject Matter Expert.

Transitioning from a short-term crisis stay or a longer-term hospitalization for psychiatric problems is a difficult time. In 1994 the New York Association for Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services (NYAPRS) developed a peer support program to assist people experiencing long term or frequent hospitalizations in transitioning back to life in the community. The program was designed to have peer support workers build positive and trusting relationships with individuals in hospital setting and then to follow the person back into the community, post discharge, providing support and connections to community resources. The Bridger program has continued to evolve over the years and can now be found around the country, serving people being discharged from hospitals, crisis stays, and emergency departments. This webinar will examine the core principles of the Bridger model and its use in transitioning levels of care and supporting people in their journeys to recovery.

Presenter: Patrick Hendry, Mental Health America 

For complete details visit: SMIadviser.org/peer-bridger

AADPRT invites you all to contemplate the motivation and process of being an educator. How does this role bring satisfaction (or does it)? How has it informed our personal trajectory and that of the learners? How have we leveraged teaching to help expand our purpose, that of future psychiatrists, and the field of mental health?

AADPRT invites you all to reflect on this year’s Annual Meeting theme: Reclaim Meaning through Teaching which takes place March 4-7, 2020 at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas, Texas.

Annual Meeting ~ Wednesday Afternoon, March 4 – Saturday, March 7

BRAIN Conference ~ Wednesday Morning, March 4

This webinar will describe Compensatory Cognitive Training for individuals with psychiatric conditions, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depression. Results from randomized controlled trials will be reviewed, and key components of the intervention will be described and demonstrated. And, clinical aspects of intervention delivery (e.g., identifying candidates, linking cognitive strategies with rehabilitation goals) will be discussed.

Presenter: Elizabeth Twamley, PhD, UC San Diego

For complete details visit: SMIadviser.org/cct

Experience the insight of unequaled speakers, hear from the top thought leaders and experts on mental health and addictions, and dig deep into the issues you care most about. NatCon is the premier conference for behavioral health, responding to today’s issues and challenges.

Experience the meeting of the profession. Join more than 2,000 social workers, like-minded professionals, and social work thought leaders for four days of unparalleled opportunities for professional development, continuing education, networking, and thought-provoking conversations tackling the most pressing issues facing the social work profession across the world.