now available on-demand!
Please join us on September 1, 2021, for the 5th Annual Peer Recovery Support Summit, Celebrating Resiliency: The Vital Role of Peer Workers. This will be an exciting 1-day virtual event including keynote speakers, interactive workshops, and recovery-oriented activity events brought together exclusively for everyone working in the peer recovery support services field.
Gain insights, inspiration, connections, and strategies for recovery with topics focusing on diversity and equity to the latest in best practices. This event also kicks off NJPN’s 2nd Annual Virtual Recovery Walk, hosted throughout the entire month of September; where we hope to conclude the Peer Summit by celebrating all the resilient peer workforce who are vital to the recovery process.
On-Demand Replay
All live events and sessions are open to all and can be watched and replayed anytime thru 12/31/21.
Earn Renewal Credits
Earn 20+ CEUs by attending live and recorded workshop sessions.
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the agenda
8:25 AM – 9:00 AM / Welcome
Virtual Doors Open for Celebrating Resiliency: The Vital Role of Peer Workers
9:00 AM – 9:45 AM / Opening Keynote
Opening Keynote
Peer Recovery Support Services: Rationale and Science
Peer recovery support services have emerged and grown substantially during the past 50 years. This growth is due to increased recognition of the need that many suffering from substance use disorder have to build recovery capital and support remission through the early months and years of recovery. This presentation will describe the theoretical rationale for the increase in these peer support services and review the research on their clinical and public health utility and cost-effectiveness.
John F. Kelly, PhD, ABPP
Professor of Psychiatry in Addiction Medicine, Harvard Medical School
RENEWAL/CEU CREDIT
This workshop is approved for 1-hour Renewal Credit/CEU for: IC&RC/NJ-AP Certification Board | NAADAC
9:45 AM – 10:00 AM / Break
Revive and Refresh (15-Min Stretch)
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM / Workshop Session 1
Workshop Session 1
Building Resilience During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Our thinking brain and survival brain are at odds during the coronavirus pandemic. As a result, many choices to calm ourselves are actually exacerbating our stress and anxiety. This talk explains this paradox—and offers alternatives to build our resilience. Building on the core principles of my resilience training program, this talk explores how where we direct our attention—consciously or unconsciously—has tremendous ripple effects throughout our brain, nervous system, and body. Thus, by training our attention and adopting simple habits that help our survival brain feel safe, we can teach our thinking brain and survival brain to work together cooperatively. The more they do, the easier it is for us to function effectively during challenges and recover afterward. We can train ourselves to make wise decisions and access choice—even during times of incredible stress, uncertainty, and change.
Elizabeth A. Stanley Ph.D.
Author and Professor of Security Studies, Georgetown University
RENEWAL/CEU CREDIT
This workshop is approved for 1-hour Renewal Credit/CEU for: IC&RC/NJ-AP Certification Board | NAADAC
11:00 AM – 11:15 AM / Break
Revive and Refresh (15-Min Stretch)
11:15 AM – 12:15 PM / Workshop Session 2
Workshop Session 2
Building Towards a Sustainable Peer Workforce
Peer Recovery Support Service programs and organizations are thriving across the nation and contribute to the overall recovery-orientation in the systems of care to which they belong. Operating in both traditional and non-traditional behavioral health settings, the peer recovery workforce delivers a variety of robust programs and services to individuals in or seeking recovery. Joseph Hogan-Sanchez, Director of Programs, and Nelson Spence, Accreditation Services Coordinator, at Faces & Voices of Recovery will be presenting on how organizations can develop infrastructure and meet national standards for the excellence in Peer Recovery Support Service delivery, and continue to support the development of the peer recovery support workforce in New Jersey.
Joseph Hogan-Sanchez, PRS, ICPR
Director of Programs, Faces & Voices of Recovery
Nelson Spence
Accreditation Services Coordinator, Faces & Voices of Recovery
RENEWAL/CEU CREDIT
This workshop is approved for 1-hour Renewal Credit/CEU for: IC&RC/NJ-AP Certification Board | NAADAC
12:15 PM – 12:45 PM / Lunch Break
Lunch (30-Min Break)
12:45 PM – 1:45 PM / Workshop Session 3
Workshop Session 3
Recognizing and Understanding Biases
White people in the U.S. live in a racially insular social environment. This insulation builds our expectations for racial comfort while at the same time lowering our stamina for enduring racial stress. Dr. DiAngelo has coined the term for this lack of racial stamina “White Fragility.” White Fragility is a state in which even a minimal challenge to the white position becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves including: argumentation, invalidation, silence, withdrawal and claims of being attacked and misunderstood. These moves function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and maintain white control. Those who see themselves as “the choir” can be particularly challenging, for we tend to focus on “evidence of our advancement” rather than reach for humility and continually grapple with how to engage in intentional action. This moderated Q & A with Dr. DiAngelo will provide an overview of the socialization that inculcates white fragility and provide the perspectives and skills needed for white people to build their racial stamina and develop more equitable and just racial norms and practices.
Dr. Robin DiAngelo, PhD
Author and Affiliate Associate Professor of Education, University of Washington
RENEWAL/CEU CREDIT
This workshop is approved for 1-hour Renewal Credit/CEU for: IC&RC/NJ-AP Certification Board | NAADAC
1:45 PM – 2:00 PM / Break
Revive and Refresh (15-Min Stretch)
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM / Workshop Session 4
3:00 PM – 3:15 PM / Break
Revive and Refresh (15-Min Stretch)
3:15 PM – 4:15 PM / Closing Keynote
Closing Keynote
Invisible People With Invisible Pain: Discussing the Intersection of Race, Chronic Illness and Chronic Pain
For people who experience social and health inequities and structural violence, chronic illnesses, pain and related care are inexorably linked to experiences of injustice and stigma. For many African Americans, pain is entangled with and shaped by: social locations, cultural identity, experiences of violence, trauma, mental health issues, experiences of discrimination, stigma and dismissal, and experiences of inadequate and ineffective health care.
The impacts of these intersecting experiences have led many African Americans to face widespread stigma and public misunderstanding of the difference between tolerance, physical dependence, and addiction when treating a chronic illness. Therefore, how does race and culture play a role in prescribing practices, pain reporting and treatment, mental health treatment and psychological outcomes? Because chronic pain can affect one's mental health, counseling can be an integral key in treatment. As mental health professionals it is important to understand what our role is in helping to manage chronic pain management for African Americans.
Learning Objectives:
Understand the difference between chronic and acute pain.
Examine how race & culture impacts prescribing practices, patient reporting and treatment and psychological outcomes.
Discuss treatment recommendations on decreasing the stigma of mental health, chronic pain and chronic diseases among African Americans.
Dr. Sherra' Watkins, LCMHC-S, LCAS, CCS, CRC
Director of Wellness Counseling and Assistant Professor, American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine
RENEWAL/CEU CREDIT
This workshop is approved for 1-hour Renewal Credit/CEU for: IC&RC/NJ-AP Certification Board | NAADAC
on-demand workshops
Earn over 20 renewal credits! Recordings of all sessions from Celebrating Resiliency: The Vital Role of Peer Workers are open to all through December 31, 2021.
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Current Trends
Building Resilience During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Our thinking brain and survival brain are at odds during the coronavirus pandemic. As a result, many choices to calm ourselves are actually exacerbating our stress and anxiety. This talk explains this paradox—and offers alternatives to build our resilience. Building on the core principles of my resilience training program, this talk explores how where we direct our attention—consciously or unconsciously—has tremendous ripple effects throughout our brain, nervous system, and body. Thus, by training our attention and adopting simple habits that help our survival brain feel safe, we can teach our thinking brain and survival brain to work together cooperatively. The more they do, the easier it is for us to function effectively during challenges and recover afterward. We can train ourselves to make wise decisions and access choice—even during times of incredible stress, uncertainty, and change.
Elizabeth A. Stanley Ph.D.
Author and Professor of Security Studies, Georgetown University
RENEWAL/CEU CREDIT
This workshop is approved for 1-hour Renewal Credit/CEU for: IC&RC/NJ-AP Certification Board | NAADAC
virtual recovery walk
SEPTEMBER 1–30
Come along with us this September as we take recovery across the country—virtually! Hosted on the MoveSpring app, we'll be working together to travel across the globe with the ultimate goal of celebrating recovery.
You can help us meet our goal of walking 24,901 miles:
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Connect your wearable device, smartphone, or manually add your activity to MoveSpring.
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Track your activity and see your progress over time.
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Along the way, stay active and have fun!