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DTWB – Doors to Wellbeing – Supported Employment and Supported Education: Peer perspectives, engagement, and learning from the field – Tuesdays

 

 Begins: Tuesday, August 31, 11:00 am PT
Supported Employment and Supported Education: Peer perspectives, engagement, and learning from the field
Presented by Mary Blake
How are peer support services and peer experiences used to help individuals with mental health, challenges become employed and retain their jobs? What supports and opportunities exist for people with psychiatric disabilities to enhance their education or build a career, whether through GED, college, or developing vocational or trade skills? Join this webinar to hear about evidence-based practices, peer support services, learnings from the field, and personal stories that illustrate the multiple ways peer support specialists and peers can provide valuable support to assist those with psychiatric disabilities find meaningful work, engage in education and build upon their recovery journeys.
 
Learning Objectives
  • List at least 3 evidence-based practices and strategies to support people in their employment goals
  • Discuss evidence-based practices and strategies to support people in their education goals
  • Identify barriers to employment and education, and discuss ways peer specialists can help to overcome them
  • Understand different paths to employment and education through lived experience perspectives
Registration is FREE — but you must register to attend!
Meet the Presenter
Mary Blake (she/her)
Program Lead for Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic Expansion (CCBHC-E), Supported Employment (SE), National Center of Excellence for Integrated Health Solutions (CIHS), and National Consumer/Consumer Supporter TA Centers (NTACS)
Public Health Advisor
Center for Mental Health Services
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Over the last 14 years, Mary has served as a Government Program Officer in SAMHSA’s Center for Mental Health Services, where she has served as a subject-matter expert, overseen contracts, and managed and coordinated numerous grant portfolios. Among her areas of expertise are peer services, recovery-driven care, supported employment, and integration of peer in systems and services program and policy development. She has served as the Program lead for SAMHSA’s Supported Employment grant the program, the Statewide Consumer Network Grant Program, and the National Consumer and Consumer Supporter Technical Assistance Centers, to name a few. Before joining SAMHSA, Mary was a co-founder and President for Consumer Action Network, and consumer-operated not-for-profit in the District of Columbia. During her tenure there, CAN received the Timothy Coakley Leadership Award from the American College of Mental Health Administrators in 2006 and 2007 for its work, spearheaded by Mary, to promote entrepreneurship and employment of persons with mental illness. At SAMHSA, Mary received the US Department of Health and Human Services 2008 Hubert H. Humphrey Award for Service to America from the Secretary for her work to raise awareness of and implement trauma-informed care within the federal government and across the country. Mary is a firm believer in and educator on the possibility and reality (based on the evidence) of recovery for those who have experienced mental health challenges, including serious mental illnesses.
**Additional seats are available! Live session includes closed captions.