LGBT Advocacy

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