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9/18/17  3:24 pm
Commenter: Elizabeth Sluder, 84 Main Peer Support and Recovery Resource Center

Supervising/ Peer Resource Coordinator
 

I'd like to add that superisors of peer run centers are qualified to supervise peer support specialists. Many of us have been through the training for supervisors. For example, Motivational Interviewing workshops to help guide staff as well as taken Ethics training and know what is expected of Certified Peer Support Specialists (CPRS). Also, supervisors at peer run centers know what type of additional training CPRS's need to keep up their certification since most of us have been trained and certified anyway.  Other qualified professionals such as QMHP's can supervise PRS since they have had the education, experience or lived experience to justify their position. The peer run center I supervise is already connected to a CSB of the Middle Penninsula Northern Neck and the only one in the state connected to a CSB. Hopefully, we can be a model for other peer run centers.

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