Train to become a Peer Recovery Coach! This Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR) training is for anyone who is involved in the recovery initiation of others and/or are in sustained recovery themselves. By training to become a peer recovery coach, you will learn to help others remove barriers and obstacles to recovery, serving as a personal guide and mentor for people seeking, or who are already in recovery.

WHEN:
July 18-19 & 25-26

8:15 AM - 5:15 PM (each day)

Sign-in begins at 8:15am, training starts at 8:30am

Lunch is on your own

WHERE:

UNH Cooperative Extension- Coos Conference Room, 629 Main St., Lancaster, NH

CHARGE: 

$50 per person*

GOALS & OBJECTIVES:

Following Peer Recovery Coach training, participants will be able to fulfill the following:

• Describe Recovery Coach role and functions
• List the core components, core values, and guiding principles of recovery
• Build skills to enhance relationships
• Explore many dimensions of recovery and recovery coaching
• Discover attitudes about self-disclosure and sharing your story
• Understand the stages of recovery
• Describe the Stages of Change and its application
• Increase awareness of culture, power, and privilege
• Address ethical and boundary issues
• Experience recovery wellness planning

This course is pre-approved for 30CE's by the Connecticut Certification Board. NH Board of Alcohol and other Drug Abuse Counselors Professional Practice Categories of Competence: 4, 5. 7, 12, 13, 15 & 18. Performance Domains IV & V Peer Recovery Domains I, II, III, & IV. CRSW: Ethics (4 hours), Performance Domains 1-4, LADC/MLADC Categories of Competence: 18  This workshop meets the CPS Educational Domains: 6

Tina Holmes

Tina is a Parent Partner with The Family Resource Center as part of the Strength to Succeed Program. Tina is a Trained Trainer in the CCAR Recovery Coach Academy Model. Tina resides in Groveton, NH and has a passion for helping others and increasing recovery support. 

Jennifer Goulet, AS

Jennifer spent four years coordinating for the Multiple Offender Program (MOP) at Tri-County Community Action Program (TCCAP) and discovered a passion for helping those in her community that suffer with Substance Use Disorder (SUD). This employment experience, as well as, personal experiences has led Jennifer to become employed as a Community Health Worker/Recovery Coach (CHW/RC) at the North Country Health Consortium (NCHC) in Littleton, NH. She is currently pursuing her CRSW to realize her commitment in improving the overall health and wellness of all New Hampshire residents that struggle with addiction. It is her belief that the CHW/RC is an essential member of the team in private practices, federally qualified health centers, social services, community settings and public health.

Scholarship request information is integrated into the registration form.

For more information or other questions, please contact Jennifer Goulet at jgoulet@nchcnh.org or (603) 991-0330.

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*FUNDING SUPPORT

This reduced-cost training is supported in the following manner:

This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under grant number D04RH31641 for the Rural Health Care Services Outreach Grant Program and grant number H1URH32387 for the Rural Health Opioid Program. This information or content and conclusions are those of the author and should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.

Scholarship support is provided by The Doorway at AVH and The Doorway at LRH programming as part of the State Opioid Response Program.