Learn AboutPeer-to-Career
Peer-to-Career is a State funded project that enhances the recruitment and retention of certified peer specialists in the recovery workforce and in turn, increases access to peer support for individuals impacted by the opioid crisis in Texas.
This will be accomplished by:
- Completing a needs assessment that will shape how to prioritize resources.
- Helping people achieve their peer specialist and peer specialist supervisor credential and career goals.
- Partnering with employers, supervisors and training entities to meet peer specialist workforce needs in Texas.
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Needs
In collaboration with the Texas Institute for Excellence in Mental Health (TIEMH), RecoveryPeople will conduct a needs assessment using existing data along with input from a Peer-to-Career Network survey of peer specialists and community partners. Draft finding will presented to an advisory committee before finalizing the report. Findings from the needs assessment will be used to prioritize where and how to best invest resources.
Help
Are you seeking a career as a peer specialists or supervisor?! Our Peer-to-Career Specialists are here to help you achieve your credential and career goals. Once the needs assessment is complete and the priorities finalizes, we will begin offering: Success Planning, Training Scholarships, Credentialing Fee Scholarships, Linkage to Instructors, Linkage to Supervisors, Linkage to Field Experience Hours, Linkage to Employment Opportunities, Continuing Education, and Network Membership and Mentorship.
Partners
As a statewide organization reflecting recovery principles, RecoveryPeople recruits a social impact network, which is a system of interconnected people and organizations that works together to solve complex programs and impact change.
RecoveryPeople's Network Weaver is responsible for coordinating the Peer-to-Career network, which will consist of peers, instructors, supervisors, employers and stakeholders collectively lowering barriers to the peer workforce and increasing the number of peer specialists serving persons with or at risk of opioid use disorders.
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