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Training and Technical Assistance
For
over eight years the services at CHOICE have been designed, managed, supervised
and provided by people who have experienced mental illness, diagnosis, hospitalization
and homelessness, as well as the discrimination and stigma attached to them. We
have accumulated a significant knowledge base by facing a number of challenges
which the peer model presents. We offer trainings for both peer and traditional
service providers in three formats: 90 minute workshops, three hour trainings,
and full day seminars. Our trainings are all customized and tailored to your needs.
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Poster Child: Is Being a Role Model Jeopardizing Your Recovery?
A frank discussion of the pitfalls of being a professional whose recovery
is public knowledge. •
The Ends Justify the Means
This workshop reviews the core
principles of harm reduction as applied in substance abuse treatment and introduces
a comparable model applicable to individuals with mental illness. The workshop
will examine the benefits of behaviors commonly known as "destructive" in the
recovery process. •
Walking the Walk: Maintaining a Drug Free Workplace
Human service agencies are not immune from the issues of staff substance abuse.
Yet addressing the issue can meet with resistance from personnel and board members.
This workshop will examine ways to identify and address the problem while remaining
faithful to your agencyÕs ethos. •
The Peer Advantage
Explains
the advantages of hiring peers as staff, examining a wide range of unique skills,
talents and experiences that peer workers can bring to the provision of service.
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The Challenges of Hiring Consumer/Survivors
A close collaborate
between providers, recipient providers and clients, while desirable, brings with
it a Gordian knot of contradictory interests. This workshop examines a variety
of conflict of interest situations and articulates a set of standards to avoid
problems before they arise. •
Compassion With a Dollar Sign
An overview of how funding
sources influence services and why a business-like approach to helping is a necessity.
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Breaking Free: How to Obtain Financial Independence For Your Agency
This
workshop explains the various models of fiscal sponsorship, their respective advantages
and disadvantages, and the preconditions that have to be met for a program to
become a fully independent, autonomous organization. •
Proving Your Value: An Introduction to Measuring Performance and
Outcomes
This workshop explains the importance of being able to demonstrate
on the basis of statistical analysis that your agency is fulfilling its mission.
Learn to distinguish between performance indicators and outcomes. •
Making Recovery Work at Work
This workshop provides an overview
of developing a quality assurance plan for peer-run organizations. The dynamics
of management will be examined. •
Taking the Disincentives Out of Work
How to assist staff
members transitioning from Social Security Benefits.
If you are an adult with a mental illness living in Westchester County,
NY and think you might need our services, please contact us directly at 914-576-0173.
CHOICE is available
to give technical assistance in the area of peer-run services.
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