MHAAO presents
Peer Support for Peer Support Specialists with Kristin Griffey
When and Where:
10-11am PST on Wednesdays in August 2020
Online via Zoom, Join by Visiting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86787750777?pwd=RjBSbXR6b0NWMjZuTXhqUGNld0wxUT09
Password 088458
Visit MHAAO’s PS4PSS page at:
https://www.mhaoforegon.org/ps4pss
About MHAAO PS4PSS:
In November of 2019, we launched PS4PSS in Washington County and also began offering it to MHAAO staff. We are now expanding our reach across Oregon, as we have seen how great the need is for this service!
Peer Support Specialists, Peer Wellness Specialists, Peer Employment Specialists, and Certified Recovery Mentors in Oregon qualify for this no-cost and confidential service.
Do you know someone who could benefit from these services? Help us spread the word! Please feel free to share our flyer for this exciting new program far and wide!
Flyer link:
https://www.mhaoforegon.org/s/Peer-Support-for-Peer-Support.pdf
WHY CHOOSE PS4PSS?
PS4PSS can help reduce compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, secondary traumatic stress, moral distress, and burnout. PS4PSS provides trauma informed support that is person-centered, goal-oriented, solution-based, and time-limited.
FROM THE FACILITATOR
“What I Like About about PS4PSS is that it is exactly a parallel process of what I have done when standing alongside peers who I have worked with during community partnerships. This is the process of holding space to encourage, empower, and empathize.
I know what it means to do this work. I know that my own recovery has been both positively and negatively impacted by this work. Now I know that while there can be a “cost of caring,” as Charles Figley would say, there are also tools that mitigate exposure to trauma. The most important action that I can take is to create a space for my fellow peer workforce, a space to be heard, a space to be held, and a space to not be judged. PS4PSS is a space where healing continues to happen – just like what our peer workforce does every day for their peers.
I am excited because this is where I think the talk and the walk truly align. We all have great strength to be doing this work – to have survived lives that led us to this movement. We have learned new ways to cope and to create. I am excited PS4PSS equally values our strength and our vulnerability.”
-Kristin Griffey, Compassion Fatigue Specialist and Trainer, Community and Workplace Traumatologist, Wellness Coach, and Peer Wellness Specialist
CONTACT US!
If interested, please contact Kristin Griffey, our Trauma Informed Care Specialist, at 971.337.5640 or kgriffey@mhaoforegon.org to schedule a presentation for your organization!