Approved Training

LGBT Advocacy

Overview

About the event

project: liberation LGBT Advocacy Training

During this 8-hour course, participants will have an opportunity to deepen their skills, knowledge, and competencies in being a peer advocate. This course is directed for those in the peer recovery leadership or supervisory field. This is a hybrid course with both synchronous and asynchronous portions. Throughout the course, peers will learn:

  • How to become an advocate
  • Social justice advocacy
  • The promotion of person-centered care
  • Trauma-informed care and healing-centered engagement as advocacy
  • Promotion of individual rights and the peer’s Bill of Rights
  • Understand and explain the importance of self-advocacy
  • Understand and explain the importance of the use of pronouns and other inclusive language
  • Differentiate different types and levels of advocacy
  • Develop advocacy tool kits and connect with other resource brokers
  • Understand various pathways, including holistic, for recovery/wellness
  • Practice connecting with peers through communication skills learned with processes such as eCPR
  • Best practices
  • Group supervision

https://www.mabpcb.com/lgbt-advocacy-peer-recovery

https://prolib.link/qpa

Training Hours by Domain

Advocacy 8.00 hrs
Total Hours 8.00

Applies to Certifications

  • Certified Peer Recovery Specialist (CPRS)