About This Training
This training explores shared power, supported decision-making, and dignity of risk in peer support. Participants will examine how good intentions can shift into fixing, rescuing, or controlling and practice strategies that preserve choice, dignity, autonomy, collaboration, and mutuality.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
- Differentiate shared power from traditional helper-driven or compliance-based models.
- Apply supported decision-making strategies that strengthen autonomy and collaboration.
- Demonstrate dignity-of-risk practices without rescuing, fixing, or withdrawing support.
- Use peer language that honors choice, learning, and human dignity.
Event Information
Location: Online via Zoom
Cost: Free
Continuing Education: 1 Ethics CE hour
Language: English
Registration: Each participant must register separately using their own email address and join the training using that same email address. Two participants cannot register under one email address.
After registering, participants will receive a confirmation email with instructions for joining the training. If you do not receive a confirmation email within 15 minutes, contact lori.mellinger@recoverypeople.org.
Attendance: Participants must attend the full training and complete the post-training evaluation to receive continuing education credit. CE certificates will be issued only to the person registered under the email address used to join the training. Registration and login information should not be shared.
Accessibility and Accommodations: For questions, cancellations, or accommodation requests, contact lori.mellinger@recoverypeople.org.
Instructor Bio
Gloria Uridel, Peer-to-Career Specialist, RecoveryPeople, PSS, RSPS, PRSS, IC&RC
Gloria is a passionate and professional Training Program Coordinator and Instructor with over 8 years of experience in the recovery support and wellness field. She is a Peer Specialist Supervisor (PSS) and Recovery Support Peer Specialist (RSPS) with extensive experience providing peer support, mentoring, and facilitating Texas State curriculum trainings for Recovery Support Peer Specialists.
As a person in long-term recovery herself, Gloria brings lived experience, compassion, and professional expertise to her work. She developed and implemented a wellness program based on SAMHSA’s Eight Dimensions of Wellness, supporting holistic recovery and personal growth. Gloria has served with substance use recovery nonprofits at both the state and national levels, offering technical assistance, project management, curriculum development, trainer instruction, and program delivery to strengthen the recovery workforce and promote sustainable systems of support.