Behavioral Health Peer Support Services

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1 Behavioral Health Peer Spport Services Pattie Marshall, CPC, BS Social Science, DSHS/DBHR Peer Spport Program Manager and Wanda Johns, CPC, DSHS/DBHR HARPS Program Manager

2 Who are we and what is or experience with peer spport?

3 Peer Spport is an asset to yor agency Person-Centered Approach The relationship is the fondation. Begin with welcoming otreach and engagement Services are based on the person s experience and the help they reqest Services work toward qality-of-life goals Treatment and rehabilitation are goal driven Personal recovery is central from beginning to end Track personal progress toward recovery Use methods that promote personal growth and self-responsibility Peer spport is volntary; people engage or disengage as they choose. The relationship may change and grow throghot and contine even after services end Adapted from Ragins, M., The Recovery Model. Handots and Reference Materials, MHA Village Integrated Service Agency, a program of the National Mental Health Association of Greater Los Angeles.

4 What is niqe abot Behavioral Health Peers? The Power is in Or Stories! Self Disclosre = Hope & Inspiration Lived experience with behavioral health system is REQUIRED. At least 1 year in recovery before training. (some employers reqire more) Experience may have been personal or as a parent/caregiver of a child in services. Lived experiences determine area of work. Actively promotes Principles of Recovery & Resiliency Work to redce stigma in commnity and systems

5 Recovery Is Possible Emerges from Hope Person-Driven Occrs via Many pathways Is Holistic Spported by Peers and Allies Spported throgh Relationships & Social Networks Cltrally Based & Inflenced Spported by Addressing Trama Involves Individal, Family & Commnity Strengths and Responsibility Based on Respect HOPE: An emotional belief in a positive otcome related to events and circmstances within one s personal life. Hope implies a bit of perseverance i.e. believing that a positive otcome is possible even when there is evidence to the contrary.

6 Whole Person Peer Spport Recovery Coach SUD Commnity Peer Org Mental Health Forensic Core Principles Whole Person Family Health & Wellness Yoth WISe

7 Why add Spported Employment & Spportive Hosing peer services?

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9 Fondational Commnity Spports (FCS) What it is Targeted Medicaid benefits that help eligible clients with complex health needs obtain and maintain hosing and employment stability. Spportive Hosing services Spported Employment services What it isn t Ongoing payments for hosing, rent, or room & board costs Wages or wage enhancements for clients Entitlement

10 FCS Target Poplation Aged, Blind, Disabled (ABD)/Hosing and Essential Needs (HEN) Individals with severe and persistent mental illness, individals with mltiple episodes of sbstance se treatment and/or co-occrring Working age yoth with behavioral health conditions Individals receiving long-term services and spports 10

11 FCS Service Benefits Vocational/job-related discovery or assessment Career advancement services - Helping people to attend school and providing academic spports, when that is their preferences Individalized Job development and placement Negotiation with and follow along spports to employers Job analysis Job carving Job coaching Benefits spport, training and planning Transportation (only in conjnction with the delivery of an athorized service)

12 Why Hosing and Recovery Throgh Peer Services (HARPS)? Research Shows Within one year of discharge from a psychiatric hospital nearly 30% of individals become homeless. Within one year of discharge from an inpatient SUD Treatment facility nearly 50% of individals become homeless. Homelessness exacerbates mental health symptoms and sbstance se.

13 What is Hosing and Recovery throgh Peer Services (HARPS)? HARPS bilds from the sccess of the PORCH spportive hosing pilot project HARPS is fnded with state dollars & Mental Health Block Grant fnds, allocated by the Legislatre.

14 Projects and Otcomes The Original 3 Pilot Sites: North Sond Mental Health Administration Hosed 528 Spportive Hosing Services for 250 Grays Harbor Regional Spport Network Hosed 301 Spportive Hosing Services for 271 Greater Colmbia Regional Spport Network Hosed 527 Spportive Hosing Services for 459

15 HARPS Sbsidies to obtain hosing (secrity deposits, rent, backgrond screenings, etc.) Estimated $500 per person for p to 3 months. Spportive Hosing Services, inclding peer spport, to maintain hosing Hosing Transition Services, Landlord otreach etc. Individal Hosing & Tenancy Sstaining Services i.e. Being a good tenant/neighbor, financial wellness Hosing Related Collaborative Activities i.e. Developing a stronger relationship with COC

16 Expansion of HARPS For sites added with MHBG Fnds in 2017 Salish BHO Hosed 427 Spportive Hosing Services 96 Spokane BHO Hosed 113 Spportive Hosing Services 203 King Conty BHO Hosed 54 Spportive Hosing Services 86 Optm-Pierce BHO Hosed 29 Spportive Hosing Services 47 *Thrston-Mason BHO site in implementation phase

17 DBHR Certification & Training Programs Training Pathways Mental Health Yoth & Family SUD Employment CPC Generalist Peer Bridger Spportive Hosing Spported Employment WISe Parent & Yoth Partners Recovery Coaches PACT Teams Mobile Crisis Contining Edcation WRAP Ethics Trama Informed Care Crisis & Sicide Prevention Hosing & Spportive Employment Co-Occrring Disorders Forensics Whole Health Wellness

18 How does someone become a certified Peer Spport Specialist? DBHR Certification & Training Programs Process for Certification: 1. Online Training Corse 2. Application Sbmission to DBHR 3. Approved applicants invited to trainings 4. DBHR sponsored Regional & Statewide or Local BHO sponsorship hor training Crriclm (2 versions: Standard or Yoth & Family) 6. Written and Oral test Once Employed at BHA: 1. DSHS Backgrond check 2. Application to DOH for Agency Affiliated Conselor Registration * Not reqired at commnity organization The DBHR certification program trains Peers per year. Approximately 275 peers received contining edcation Crrently we have 242 agencies licensed to provide peer services

19 Training Core Competencies Recovery & Wellness Commnication Telling yor story Trama Informed Practice Ethics & Bondaries Docmentation Engagement

20 Peers can provide a wide variety of services throgh a variety of employers Behavioral health agencies State hospitals Treatment programs Forensics: Corts, Jails & Detention centers Commnity organizations Consmer & family rn organizations Recovery Café Health programs Spportive Hosing Spportive Employment Mental Health Treatment Peer Bridgers PACT teams Navigators WISe teams Crisis teams Renification programs Parent and family Services Yoth Programs Schools Homeless Otreach Sbstance Treatment Programs Recovery Coaches Older Adlts Commnity Volnteers

21 Yo are not on yor own, we can help along the way Operationalizing Peer Spport SE & SH trainers Free online trainings

22 Next steps: