Certified Recovery Peer Specialist

FCB approved Certified Recovery Peer Specialist

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Advocacy for Peer Recovery Specialists: 4hrs.

This course prepares Peer Recovery Specialists (PRS) to engage in effective, ethical advocacy that supports self-determination, equity, and recovery-oriented systems of care. Participants learn how to help peers identify their needs, understand their rights, navigate complex service systems, and build confidence to speak for themselves. The training also identify systemic barriers and promote meaningful change.

CourseBy Sandra L Donaldson

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Coaching, Guiding, and Growing: The Role of a CRPS Mentor: 3hrs.

This course assists Peer Recovery Specialist (PRS) demonstrate healthy, independent behaviors expected of a person in recovery based on choice rather than compliance. The course guides the (PRS) to establish and maintain an effective peer mentoring relationship with their peer and promote social learning through shared experiences.

CourseBy Sandra L Donaldson

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CRPS bundle package

Bundle pricing includes full required 40 hr. core course package. A value of $300.00!

CourseBy Sandra L Donaldson

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Cultural and Linguistic Competence: 2 hrs.

This course equips Peer Recovery Specialists (PRS) with the knowledge, skills, and self-awareness needed to deliver culturally responsive, linguistically appropriate, and trauma-informed peer support services. Grounded in lived experience and recovery-oriented principles, the training emphasizes cultural humility, respect for diverse identities, and meaningful engagement with individuals from historically marginalized communities.

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Empowering Recovery Through Peer Support: 3hrs.

This course supports Peer recovery specialists to identify their options and empower their peers to participate in all decisions related to establishing and achieving recovery goals. This includes developing problem solving skills, so they can respond to challenges to their recovery. This course guides Peer recovery specialists in recognizing crisis situations and how to respond appropriately. This includes recognizing risks to the peer’s recovery and/or personal safety and applying strategies designed to enhance the peer’s motivation to change.

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Meet your Trainer

Sandra Donaldson, MPA, MBA, is President and CEO of Donaldson Edge Consulting, LLC, and a nationally recognized leader in health equity and community workforce development.

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Mentoring Matters: 3 hrs.

This course is important because it strives to strengthen recovery, build confidence, and help peers navigate life with support from someone who truly understands what they’re going through. Mentors have personal recovery experience, which builds credibility and trust. The mentoring concept help peers feel understood, accepted, and less alone.

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Motivational Interviewing: 4hrs.

This course equips Peer Recovery Specialists (PRS) with practical Motivational Interviewing (MI) skills to strengthen engagement, build trust, and support self-directed recovery. Learn how to use MI as a conversational approach, not a clinical intervention, to help peers explore ambivalence, identify personal motivations for change, and strengthen confidence—without persuasion, confrontation, or advice-giving.

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Professional Responsibilities: 4hrs.

This course is designed to guide peer recovery specialists in their responsibility to report suspicions of abuse of a child or vulnerable adult according to Florida Statutes. While maintaining confidentiality according to state and federal laws is necessary, Peer recovery specialists must perform all job tasks according to professional, legal and ethical standards. This course includes maintaining documentation as required by agency policy and by state and federal laws and addresses the importance of peer recovery specialists personal stressors, triggers and other indicators that impact ability to perform job duties, while seeking supervision. We will discuss how to provide services that respect the varied identities people have based on race, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, gender and gender identification, religion, spirituality, and mental, emotional, and physical differences in abilities.

CourseBy Sandra L Donaldson

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Trauma-Informed Care: 4 hrs.

This course reviews Trauma-Informed Care six core principles—Safety, Trustworthiness & Transparency, Peer Support, Collaboration & Mutuality, Empowerment, Voice & Choice, and Cultural/Historical Awareness—to create supportive environments by recognizing trauma's impact, avoiding re-traumatization. It focuses on Adverse Childhood Experiences and their association with substance use disorders in adulthood. Peer recovery specialist will identify recovery principles centered on hope, empowerment, self-direction, and holistic well-being, aligning with TIC's focus on strengths, choice, and community connection to help peers rebuild their lives after trauma.

CourseBy Sandra L Donaldson

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Vicarious Trauma/Self-Care: 2 hrs.

This course supports Peer Recovery Specialists (PRS) in recognizing, understanding, and responding to vicarious trauma while maintaining personal wellness, ethical boundaries, and sustainable recovery. The training normalizes vicarious trauma as an occupational risk, not a personal failure, and equips peers with practical tools to protect their well-being while continuing to provide compassionate, recovery-oriented support. Emphasis is placed on self-care as a professional responsibility.

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Wellness and Recovery Support Strategies: 3 hrs.

This course is designed to support access to information and resources necessary to make informed decisions that will positively affect overall health and wellness. Through concepts to navigate the array of services available to achieve and maintain recovery; this course reinforce reasons why recovery is a viable and achievable path. Training includes helping peers develop an understanding of the holistic approach to wellness and recovery. This also incudes physical, mental, spiritual, and social wellness. These tools assist peers to move through the stages of recovery and develop recovery capital.

CourseBy Sandra L Donaldson

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Whole Health (i.e., WRAP, WHAM, Peer Whole Health and Resilience, etc.): 8 hrs.

This course introduces participants to a Whole Health approach to wellness and recovery, integrating evidence-informed peer support models such as Wellness Recovery Action Planning (WRAP®), Whole Health Action Management (WHAM®), and Peer Whole Health & Resilience. Participants develop skills to identify personal wellness goals to support physical, mental, emotional, social, and environmental well-being. Participants will develop skills to recognize stressors and early warning signs, build resilience, and create a personalized Whole Health Plan that supports long-term stability and quality of life.

CourseBy Sandra L Donaldson

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