Dana Woods
CPRS, Center for Family Sevices (OORP)
Dana Woods is a Certified Peer Recovery Specialist with over 4 years of experience supporting individuals in their recovery journeys. She is passionate about walking alongside people as they overcome challenges, rebuild their lives, and discover their inner strength. Dana believes that healing happens in connection and strives to create a supportive, empowering space for every person she serves. Her work is rooted in compassion, resilience and the belief that recovery is always possible. She works with the OORP program at Center For Family Services, with lived experience, has been in recovery for almost 8 years.
This peer-led session explores how Peer Recovery Specialists are transforming crisis response into long-term recovery pathways through real-time engagement, data-informed practices, and culturally responsive care. Grounded in lived experience, the workshop centers on the success of a county-wide, hospital-based peer program that positions peers as the bridge between immediate intervention and sustained support.
Presenters will share how peers are leading efforts in:
24/7 engagement through dispatch and emergency department response
Using data to inform outreach, equity, and program improvement
Reaching underrepresented and high-risk populations with intention
Implementing trauma-informed supervision and workforce development
Designed for Peer Recovery Specialists and program leaders, this session offers real-world strategies, core peer competencies, and actionable tools for elevating peer roles in systems of care. Attendees will walk away with a renewed vision of how peer voice can drive innovation, connection, and healing across the recovery continuum.
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11:00am - 12:00pm
MAC 206
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