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Certified Peer Specialist Training - Philadelphia
2025-06-09 09:00 - 2025-06-20 17:00 UTC
Mental Heath Partnerships Presents: Certification Training is a 75-hour training, delivered live (in-person) over 10 training days. The training provides foundational knowledge, skills and values that equip individuals to work as Peer Supporters in the state of Pennsylvania. A CPS is willing to self-identify as having a serious behavioral health disorder (mental and/or addiction illness ). A CPS supports others in their recovery process, builds mutual trust, shares experiences, learns about the recovery process, and moves toward a more meaningful life in the community.

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Certified Peer Specialist Training - Bucks County (Virtual)
2025-06-09 09:00 - 2025-06-13 16:00
Mental Heath Partnerships Presents: The CPS Certification Training is a 75-hour hybrid training fully authorized by the PA Certification Board (PCB). The class is delivered live (in-person) during the first week, and Online via Zoom the second week.
The training provides foundational knowledge, skills and values that equip individuals to work as Peer Supporters in the state of Pennsylvania. This training costs $1400.00
The CPS Certification Training includes the following topics:
The history of Recovery and Peer Support
Recovery Values
WRAP Seminar I
CPS Core Competencies
Outreach and Engagement
Stages of Change
Introduction to Motivational Interviewing
Ethics and Boundaries
Documentation
Mental Models / Ladder of Inference
Diversity and Worldview
Support for Transitions
Credentialing and Job Search
Successful completion of this training requires consistent attendance, full participation in activities and assignments, as well as satisfactory scores on two weekly tests. Successful completion of this course renders the learner eligible to sit for the PA Certification Board exam, which is required for full certification.

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Diversity drives discovery in large-scale genomics research: New biological insights in schizophrenia
2025-06-06 12:00 - 13:00
OSU EPICENTER Presents: Diversity drives discovery in large-scale genomics research: New biological insights in schizophrenia. Presented by Tim Bigdeli, PhD

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Trauma Informed Care (TIC) in FEP
2025-06-06 10:00 - 12:00
HeadsUp Presents: Activating engagement and participation in services through evoking change talk and autonomy supports.

This workshop will look at using enhanced communication skills to develop therapeutic rapport, evoke change talk and soften sustain talk as participants work through ambivalence around everyday goals including developing coping skills for trauma activators.
Learning Objectives:
1. Identify ambivalence around everyday goals and the role trauma can play in fueling avoidance and ambivalence
2. Recognizing change talk, sustain talk, and discord with applications and examples from participants work
3. Emphasize autonomy and leveraging strengths to overcome barriers to achieving goals
4. Clarify objectives and interventions that are reflective of trauma informed consideration and stages of change

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Certified Peer Specialist Training - Bucks County (In Person)
2025-06-02 09:00 - 2025-06-06 16:00
