Via Hope envisions a world where lived experience is valued within systems and communities.
Upcoming Trainings Calendar
Healing Centered De-Escalation
Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 9:00 CDT AM - 12:15 CDT PM
Healing Centered De-escalation is a three-hour training that provides a better understanding of what someone may be experiencing (both physiologically and emotionally) during escalation and several techniques and tools to support […]
RECOVERY INSTITUTE –
ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE
A Focus on Engagement & Local Solutions
Recovery Institute initiatives are designed to support the implementation of new practices, shift organizational culture, promote innovation, and increase collaboration within and among teams, preparing agencies to meet the challenges and opportunities arising in our rapidly changing environment.
Working as a Team To Make A Difference
How Peer Specialists Fit Into
The Healing and Recovery Model
Peer support specialists are people who have lived experience with a mental health or substance use disorder and are in recovery. Peer support services are designed and delivered by formally trained peer support specialists to promote recovery and resiliency in individuals seeking to begin or supplement their own recovery. Peer support services are offered in a variety of settings, from recovery centers and hospitals to homeless shelters and criminal justice settings. Learn more about the role peer support specialists play in recovery here.
How It’s Going
What Individuals and Organizations Say About Their Via Hope Training Experience
What it Takes
The Path to Becoming a Certified Peer Specialist
STEP
1
Review the online orientation materials and complete the self-assessment. This will enable you to apply for training on the Core training to become a Peer Specialist.
STEP
2
Apply and take the Core training. Complete the application and submit it with payment by credit card.
STEP
3
Apply for Supplemental Training. Via Hope offers the Mental Health Peer Specialist Training.
STEP
4
Apply for certification with (TCB) Texas Certification Board: Refer to TCB’s website for all information on how to apply for certification.
Since Day 1
Via Hope: Peer Specialist Training Leaders in Texas and Nationwide
Via Hope has been committed to the mission of changing the way we think about mental and behavioral health since 2010, when we created our first training program for Certified Peer Specialists. We trace our roots to the 2003 final report of the President’s New Freedom Commission Achieving the Promise, which called for fundamentally transforming the nation’s mental health system to a consumer, family, and youth-driven Recovery Model. We continue to provide training and consultation for people in recovery, their family members, youth, and mental health professionals to help make Texas’ mental health system become focused on recovery and resilience.
To learn more about our mission and work, visit our decade report.
Our lovely program manager, Cynthia Simons, has accepted a position at Travis County. 💙 She's made a big impact on the peer specialist community during her time at Via Hope and she continues to be a passionate advocate for social change. We're sad to see her go but excited for this new chapter!
Cynthia's departure means that we have a position to fill at Via Hope! 🎉 View the job listing at viahope.org/about/careers ... See MoreSee Less
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Via Hope promotes wellness & recovery through peer support training, workforce development & organizational change work. This May, we're offering the following online trainings. Visit viahope.org/events to learn more!
⭐ Peer Specialist Core Training (May 7th-9th)
📆 Apply by April 29th
⭐ Community Connections (May 8th)
📆 Register by the morning of
⭐ Reentry Peer Specialist Certification Training (May 13th-18th)
📆 Apply by May 4th
⭐ Ethical Considerations for Peer Specialists (May 14th)
📆 Register by May 6th
⭐ MHPS Certification Training (May 20th-24th)
📆 Apply by May 6th
⭐ Peer Specialist Supervisor Training (May 20th-21st)
📆 Apply by May 13th ... See MoreSee Less
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Our very own Amy Pierce (Recovery Institute Associate Manager) will be speaking at the South Southwest MHTTC First Episode Psychosis Conference in June! 😍 This virtual conference is FREE, so register now: mhttcnetwork.org/south-southwest-mhttc-first-episode-psychosis-conference-2024⭐ 2024 Virtual FEP Conference Speaker Spotlight! ⭐
We're excited to share that Amy Pierce (she/her) who been working in the Peer Movement in the State of Texas for almost two decades, will be a speaker at the FEP Conference in June.
Amy currently serves as Recovery Institute Associate Manager at Via Hope by serving as a subject matter expert on the implementation of peer services and other recovery-oriented practices. She has extensive experience in the peer support sector, having started the first peer support program in the state hospitals in Texas, implementing peer support programs in the community as well as the Program Coordinator for a transitional peer residential housing project. Prior to Via Hope, she was the CEO of Resiliency Unleashed, an international training and consulting company.
Amy is a peer, and family member, with both mental health and addictions experience. Amy was previously Chair of the PAIMI Council in Texas and currently serves on the Disability Rights Texas Board of Directors.
Register for the Free Virtual FEP Conference here: mhttcnetwork.org/south-southwest-mhttc-first-episode-psychosis-conference-2024/
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Get some Amy!! You will be great!!