HTH Peer Training Bootcamp

The HTH Peer Training Bootcamp is an intensive multi week online live instruction series developed to train people with experience in mental health recovery to become peer support workers in human services.

Welcome

Based on our award winning HTH Peer Training Program, the HTH Peer Training Bootcamp will:

  • Provide foundational tools and skills to fulfill your ability to provide peer support in various capacities
  • Develop your critical thinking skills to provide nuanced supportive care
  • An approach to peer work that supports your own well-being

The HTH Peer Training Bootcamp features two parts:

  • 12 weeks of training (from March 29 until Jun 20, 2021)
  • Employment prep and search support

Students will be provided with employment prep support along-side the live trainings. The efficacy of the program depends on your efforts and allegiance to the recovery of others and yourself.

This series is geared towards:

  • Career changers with employment histories
  • Established peer workers (regardless of employment status) who would benefit from live instruction.

To apply you must have:

  • A clinical mental health diagnosis
  • Reside in the NYC metropolitan area
  • Have at least a high school diploma (or the equivalent)
  • Able to work in the U.S.
  • Have consistent access to computer with a camera and wifi
  • Have computer skills and knowledge to maneuver online training and lessons

Applications Forms:

If you would like to join the HTH Peer Training Bootcamp, please complete this online application form (coming soon).

NOTE: Part of the online application process will require you to complete some additional application forms. For your reference only, these forms are available to download here: (1) ACCES-VR Application, (2) ACCES-VR Consent Authorization, (3) ACCES-VR Health Assessment, (4) ACCES-VR Psychiatric Evaluation, (5) Community Access Consent Authorization, (6) Community Access Text Authorization.

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More Info

For 25 years, HTH has trained hundreds of working peers across the NYC area. Many work in various capacities and programs: inpatient/outpatient, crisis respite, substance use facilities, incarceration diversion programs, mandated recovery programs, supportive housing, Personalized Recovery Oriented Services (PROS), supported education and employment.

As peer support work evolves we are more aware of the challenges peer support workers and employers face. Questions such as:

  • What are the parameters of the peer role
  • How does that role differ from clinical and other non-clinical staff in mental health support service setting
  • How can peers best navigate clinical protocols using peer value approaches

The HTH Peer Training Bootcamp seeks to resolve these inquiries by offering a more focused approach to peer support training and work. We believe that peer support workers serve two main functions in every peer position:

  • Support individuals in mental health recovery to lead their own recovery process and collaborate with their supportive services
  • Ensure their wishes and wants are centered and considered in all services they utilize and receive – especially when they aren’t available (ie staff meetings, crisis episode)

Using their own recovery process and skills/tools and values from peer support traditions, HTH Bootcamp-trained peer support workers will strive to:

  • Ensure that the people they work with retrieve and sustain ownership of their own recovery process at a pace they are ready, willing and able to. (Empowerment)
  • Represent and reinforce the wishes and wants of the people they support in all services they utilize and/or receive. (Advocacy)
  • Support their own health and well-being in an authentic and sustainable way

Benefits

Focused learning and approach — there are many ways to enter the peer workforce. The HTH Peer Training Bootcamp will provide a framework that will make learning efficient and focused.

Interactive lessons and discussions — foundational training will be provided live, online via Zoom, Slack and Google for students to interact, ask questions, think and work collectively. Employment support prep — an assigned career coach will help you update your resume, consider what peer positions interest you and prepare to interview and seek employment throughout the online training series and afterwards.

Attendance Expectations

If you are accepted into the HTH Peer Training Bootcamp, please keep in mind the following:

  • Trainees must have consistent access to a computer, with a camera and Wi-Fi. Each attendee must have the proper equipment at the beginning of training. Smart phones and tablets will not work for this training. (Please refer to our resource page for low cost Wi-Fi options and laptop purchase)
  • Trainees must be on camera for all live trainings. To help facilitate communal learning and authenticity, all trainees must be on camera when attending live trainings.
  • Trainees must be ready to learn and engage in the discussions. While attending live trainings, all trainees must be focused on the training and be prepared for active participation in discussions. Please make sure you are sitting upright, pen/paper in hand and refrain from multi-tasking.
  • Trainees are expected to attend all live trainings. Each training builds upon the next — there will be no make-up sessions and trainings will not be recorded for privacy concerns.
  • Trainees are expected to attend the session time they were assigned. If you are accepted and assigned a timeslot, please make sure you can attend all trainings in that timeslot.
 

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