Webinar: Rooting Young Adult Mental Health Services in Culturally Sustaining Values & Practices

Session 4 of 4 in the “Rooting Young Adult Mental Health Services in Culturally Sustaining Values & Practices” Series (view series main page for full details)

Honoring and Supporting Peer Support in Healing-Centered Approaches

May 22, 2024: Session 4

This session’s essential question is: How might organizations truly value, uplift, and support the wisdom and skill of those with lived experience? Join us as we explore peer support in healing-centered engagement.

The learning objectives include:

• How YYA serving organizations can implement peer support providers, and uplift lived experience professionals
• Learn about the power and benefits of peer support in a young person’s life
• Ways to implement peer support in young people’s treatment plan as a way to promote employment opportunities and belonging
• How to create youth leadership programming and youth voice initiatives

Main Series Program Goals

1. Counter the impacts of vicarious trauma and burn out by creating a safe and responsive learning community for the YYA workforce to be heard and seen in their efforts to support the holistic needs of their clientele.
2. Build an understanding of healing centered engagement and approaches to youth development and case management that strengthens service provision for transition-aged youth.
3. Expand our organizational and individual capacity to support young adult holistic wellness, critical consciousness development, and collective healing.

Audience

All community-based organizations, institutions, and mental health professionals, including peer support specialists, therapists, psychologists, counselors, and others who support the mental health and wellness of transition-aged youth.

Mental Health America of Fredericksburg staff are attending this workshop and wanted to share this opportunity with you.