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COSIG Co-Occurring Disorders Conference, Hershey PA, May 15-17, 2006
FRIENDS CONNECTON PEER SUPPORT
Mental Health Assoc. of SEPA
An Evidence-Based Means for Reducing Hospitalization
2006 Pennsylvania
COSIG Conference
May 15 – 17
Hershey PA
Presenters, Jeanie Whitecraft M.Ed,CAC,CCS,CPRP
Ted Dawson
FRIENDS CONNECTION
OVERVIEW
Community Integration/Recovery
Peer Support/Recovery/outcomes
History of Friends Connection Program
Operational and Supervisory Program Structure
Outcomes and reciprocating benefits for staff
UPENN COLLABORATIVE ON
COMMUITY INTEGRATION
Mark Salzer, Ph.D., Director
(www.upennrrtc.org)
Salzer@mail.med.upenn.edu
COMMUNITY INTEGRATION
Provides the Roadmap to Recovery
The opportunity to live in the community and be valued for abilities and unique
qualities like everyone else
• Housing
• Employment
• Spirituality
• Health Status
• Self Determination
• Leisure/Recreation
Citizenship and civic engagement
Valued Social Roles (marriage/parent)
Self -Determination
PEER SUPPORT
UPENN COLLAORATIVE
ON COMMUNITY INEGRATION
DEFINING PEER SUPPORT
Shery Mead
Peer support is a system of giving and receiving help
founded on key principles of respect, shared responsibility,
and mutual agreement of what is helpful. Peer support is not
based on psychiatric models of diagnostic criteria. It is about
understanding another’s’ situation empathically through the
shared experience of emotional and psychological pain.
When people find affiliation with others whom they feel are
“like” them, they feel a connection.
PEER SUPPORT AS A
BEST/EMERGINING/PROMISING
PRACTICE
Evidence based
Policy Support
--Surgeon General’s report, New Freedom Commission
“The value of Peer Support is highlighted as a valuable
approach for promoting consumer recovery
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