Empower Yourself and Others Be a “Recovery Coach”!
“Recovery Coach” training will revitalize your service
to people struggling with substance abuse!
“Recovery Coaches” come from diverse backgrounds: peer mentors, recovery advocates, recovery program staff, support group facilitators, HIV/AIDS and substance abuse outreach workers, family, youth and prevention workers, Twelve Step sponsors, home group leaders, community urban workers, staff of compassion ministries or rescue missions, pastors, missionaries, jail / prison volunteers and chaplains.
Professionals in social work, education, treatment, medicine, pastoral care, mental health, and law enforcement will learn practical addiction recovery tools to empower people they serve.
Purpose: To equip individuals to be compassionate, confident and competent in supporting people to begin or maintain their recovery from addiction. This training will provide a sound understanding of the emerging non-clinical role of “Recovery Coaches”, peer mentors, recovery support specialists, and recovery advocates.
Strength-Based approaches address the whole person within a community of recovery support services. Current research on the brain, long term recovery, the role of spirituality, faith, personal maturity and healthy relationships will provide the basis for understanding health, wholeness and long term recovery.
Topic Highlights: Recovery Management Ethics & Coaching Tools such as a recovery plan, recovery support services, understanding addiction as a relational issue, alcoholism, Twelve Steps, street drugs, and cultural competency. Learn to help others move beyond codependency, trauma and delayed maturation to experience new possibilities and hope.
Note: This training is designed to meet educational requirements for Florida’s new Certified Recovery Support Specialist, based upon electives. Go to www.flcertificationboard.org to see if you have the experience to qualify for this credential before Jan.31, 2009 when the CRSS Grandfathering period closes.
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