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Peer Support: State Credentials, Continuing Broadcast on January 6, 2020 Education, Recruitment, and Retention Peer Support: State Credentials, Continuing Education, and Retention/Recruitment Strategies Amy B. Spagnolo & Rita Cronise

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Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Peer Support: State Credentials, Continuing Education, and Retention/Recruitment Strategies

Amy B. Spagnolo & Rita Cronise February 6, 2020

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Peer Support

State Credentials, Continuing Education, and Recruitment & Retention Strategies

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Presenters

  • Dr. Amy B. Spagnolo & Rita Cronise

Rutgers the State University, Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Counseling Professions

Rita Cronise, M.S. Amy B. Spagnolo, Ph.D.

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Roles Certification Hiring Continuing Ed

Objectives

What is a Peer Support Specialist?

  • Life altering lived experience
  • Training in core competencies
  • Regular supervision

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Where do Peer Support Specialists work?

  • Peer-run organizations
  • Behavioral health
  • Housing
  • ACT
  • VA
  • Advocacy
  • Crisis response
  • Criminal justice
  • Supported employment

How are they paid?

  • Long tradition of volunteerism

(WOC)

  • 1980’s: Community Support

Program (CSP)

  • 2007: Reimbursement from

Medicaid CMS

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Peer-Run Respite Funding

Source: 2018 PREF (Peer Respite Essential Features) Survey Program Operations Report: Funding, Staffing, Evaluation (Live & Learn, 2019)

How is Medicaid Reimbursement used?

  • 1. Medicaid State Plan

Amendment

  • 2. Waiver Programs

Open Minds, 2019

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Medicaid Guidance to the States

Peer providers should be self-identified consumers in recovery from mental health and/or substance use disorders 1) Training and credentialing 2) Care Coordination 3) Supervision

Letter from the CMS Director, 2007

Peer Specialist Training and Certification Programs: A National Overview.

Texas Institute for Excellence in Mental Health (TIEMH), School of Social Work, University of Texas at Austin.

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Updates (2020): AR = Yes CO = Yes NV = Yes OH=In Development CA=New Legislation

Peer Specialist Certification

U.S. Government Accounting Office Report

(US GAO, 2018)

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Appendix: Medicaid Reimbursement for Peer Services

Beyond Certification

Technical Assistance, Conferences, and Communities of Practice

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SAMHSA Mental Health Consumer Technical Assistance Centers*

* Subject to change

National Peer-Led Associations and Advocacy Organizations

Formerly the International Association of Peer Supporters (iNAPS)

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SAMHSA

Addiction Recovery Support Technical Assistance

*National Recovery Institute at Faces and Voices of Recovery

*National Peer-Run Center for Addiction Recovery

National Allies (Not Peer-Run)

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SAMHSA

Technology Transfer Centers

Addiction, Mental Health and Prevention

National Peer Conferences

*In 2020 Peerpocalypse and Alternatives are collaborating to offer the conference together

Peer Support Canada

National Conference on Peer Support, June 25 & 26, 2020

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National Conferences by Allies (Not Peer-Run)

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Communities of Practice

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One of the most vital ways we sustain

  • urselves is by building communities;

places where we know we are not alone.

– bell hooks

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Entering or Re-Entering Higher Education

What is the Academic Career Ladder for Peer Support Specialists?

Peers are Entering or Re-entering Higher Education

  • First Career
  • Change in Career
  • Career Advancement
  • Moving into Supervision

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Demographic Data / Academy of Peer Services (2015 - 2018)

Education Prior to Enrollment

500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000 3500 4000 Graduate Bachelor Associate Some college High school n %

24% 31% 20%

Graduate Bachelor Associate Some College High School

11% 14%

First career?

Continuing education may include steps on the rung of an academic ladder.

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Undergraduate Certificate in Peer Support

Changing careers?

Even more rungs may be available on an academic career ladder. Here are some

  • ptions.

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Behavioral Health

Recruitment and Retention

Strategies for Employers of Peer Support Specialists

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Retention Strategies

  • Clear job

descriptions

  • An accepting

culture

  • Supervisor

understands the role (preferably having been one)

  • Living wage
  • Career ladder

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Resources for Hiring, Supervision, and Retention

New York City Workforce Integration of Peer and Community Health Worker Roles: A needs-based toolkit to advance organizational readiness Philadelphia Peer Support Toolkit

SUMMARY

The State of Peer Support Workforce: Certification and Funding Continuing Education and Communities of Practice Entering or Re-Entering the Academic Career Ladder Recruiting and Retention Strategies

Peer Support Making a Difference

www.aps-community.org

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Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Contact Information

Amy Spagnolo, Ph.D. spagnoam@shp.rutgers.edu Rita Cronise, M.S. rita.cronise@rutgers.edu

Rita Cronise, M.S. Amy B. Spagnolo, Ph.D.

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