The Power of Peers in Healthcare Providers by Joshua Singleton Burke
A peer provider utilizes their lived experience and formal training to deliver services promoting mind-body recovery and resiliency in behavioral health settings. Learn about the evolving roles of peer providers in integrated health and primary care, focusing on whole health self-management and prevention in healthcare reform.
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The Power of Peers in Healthcare Providers hi Joshua Singleton Burke Integrated Health Duke University Certified Nonprofit Manager UNC Chapel Hill Peer Support Specialist North Carolina R- Certified Substance Abuse Counselor Copeland Certified Wellness Recovery Action Plan Facilitator
Who are Peer Providers ? A peer provider (e.g., certified peer specialist, peer support specialist, recovery coach) is a person who uses his or her lived experience of recovery from physical wellness, mental wellness and/or substance use, plus skills learned in formal training, to deliver services in behavioral health settings to promote mind- body recovery and resiliency.
Who are Peer Providers? In primary care, peer support services have traditionally been limited to an informal or volunteer role of connecting people living with chronic conditions, such as diabetes, in sharing knowledge and experiences with each other.
Who are Peer Providers? More recently, peer support roles have evolved to include community health workers, peer coaches, and more. Peer Support in Primary Care Settings focuses around four core functions and enhances primary care by providing self- management around chronic conditions.
In Integrated Health An emerging key role for peer providers are interventions that result in the activation of whole health self-management by those in recovery from behavioral health and chronic health conditions. Growing national recognition of this critical role of self-management (WRAP) Wellness Recovery Action Plan and IN-Shape. Whole person Integrated Health.
Roles of Peer Providers in Integrated Health 2 Primary Roles 1. Health Navigators 2. Whole Health and Wellness Coaches
Prevention in healthcare reform By focusing on resiliency and whole health, peer providers can activate self- management of prevention factors, such as stress management, to promote health and longevity.
Strengths Peer Providers Add to the Integrated Workplace Peer providers bring unique strengths and qualities to the integrated care team. These strengths include:
Personal experience with whole health recovery that includes addressing wellness of both mind and body Insight into the experience of internalized stigma and how to combat it Compassion and commitment to helping others, rooted in a sense of gratitude
Can take away the you do not know what it s like excuse Experience of moving from hopelessness to hope A developed skill in monitoring their illness and self-managing their lives holistically
Peer Navigation Successful Pilots Whole Person Integrated Care Burke Integrated Health Wellness Coaching CARE Center Provider Integration-Huddles Collaboration of Care Peer Warm Handoffs-Community Involvement
Whole Person Integrated Care Peers Instilling Hope Shared Experiences Asking what a persons needs to reach their dreams Supporting the whole person Holistically Non-linear, non-traditional, non-conformity! Placing Peers in every Healthcare Provider
My Story to Whole Person Wellness It really Works In My Life I've seen it work in others Dare to Imagine? Questions and Answers?
The Power of Peers in Healthcare Providers hi Joshua Singleton Burke Integrated Health Duke University Certified Nonprofit Manager UNC Chapel Hill Peer Support Specialist North Carolina R- Certified Substance Abuse Counselor Copeland Certified Wellness Recovery Action Plan Facilitator
