Essential Skills in Volunteer Management: Mobilizing the Power of the Recovery Community is a six-month learning collaborative for Recovery Community Organization leadership, volunteer coordinators, and/or lead volunteers looking for guidance on how to lead volunteer programs with purpose.
The Peer Recovery Center of Excellence in collaboration with the Minnesota Association for Volunteer Administrators is offering this unique learning experience to Recovery Community Organization (RCO) leaders. Participants will acquire skills in designing and developing volunteer programs for their organization, receive coaching to achieve a better understanding of volunteer management strategies, and become part of a larger group of peers working together around similar goals. Each session in the Learning Collaborative incorporates a diversity, equity, and inclusion lens. Space is limited to the first 70 registrants to allow for a personalized experience for all attendees. Participants are expected to attend all sessions.
Participant Commitment & Expectations:
All Learning Collaborative sessions occur once every three weeks, on Tuesdays, from 11:00 am - 1:00 pm Eastern, beginning on March 9, 2021. (10am Central / 9am Mountain / 8am Pacific)
"Ask the Expert" sessions will begin on April 28th and continue through August 25, 2021: Each of the six 1.5 hour sessions will be held from 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Eastern. (11am Central / 10am Mountain / 9am Pacific).
Session 1: March 9, 2021 11am - 1pm Eastern
Ask the Expert - April Wednesday, April 28, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Eastern (11am Central / 10am Mountain / 9am Pacific) Our Expert: (Info coming soon!)
Ask the Expert - May Wednesday, May 26, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Eastern (11am Central / 10am Mountain / 9am Pacific) Our Expert: (Info coming soon!)
Ask the Expert - June Wednesday, June 23, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Eastern (11am Central / 10am Mountain / 9am Pacific) Our Expert: (Info coming soon!)
Ask the Expert - July Wednesday, July 28, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Eastern (11am Central / 10am Mountain / 9am Pacific) Our Expert: (Info coming soon!)
Ask the Expert - August Wednesday, August 11, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Eastern (11am Central / 10am Mountain / 9am Pacific) Our Expert: (Info coming soon!)
Ask the Expert - August Wednesday, August 25, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Eastern (11am Central / 10am Mountain / 9am Pacific) Our Expert: (Info coming soon!)
The Peer Recovery Center of Excellence: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) funded the National Peer-Run Training and Technical Assistance Center for Addiction Recovery Peer Support to the University of Missouri Kansas City (UMKC). UMKC, along with our partners - National Council for Behavioral Health, University of Texas - Austin, and University of Wisconsin, worked to appoint a peer-led steering committee for the new Center. Peer voice is at the core of our work and guides our mission to enhance the field of substance use peer support services. We are here to offer help from those who have done this work for those wanting to enhance or begin peer support services in their communities!
Working with our peer-led steering committee, we have become known as the Peer Recovery Center of Excellence. We have four focus areas: Clinical Integration of Peers into Non-Traditional Settings, Recovery Community Organization Capacity Building, Peer Workforce Development, and Evidence-Based Practice & Practice-Based Evidence Dissemination. Training and events will center around these focus areas. In addition, starting in early 2021, we will accept TA requests from anyone in need of training from across the nation for technical assistance relating to substance use disorder peer support services.
The Minnesota Association for Volunteer Administrators (MAVA) is a global leader in meeting pressing community needs through effective and equitable engagement of volunteers. MAVA has embedded equity into internal structures and works with other organizations to dismantle structural racism in volunteer systems. A one of its kind organization, MAVA propels organizations and volunteer engagement professionals to maximum mission capacity through multiple services and programs.
For questions about the Learning Collaborative please contact Kris Kelly, kris.kelly@wisc.edu For questions about registration please contact Cindy Christy, christyc@umkc.edu
Contact Us: info@peerrecoverynow.org
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Funding for this initiative was made possible by grant no. 1H79TI083022 from SAMHSA. The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.
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