Provincial Peer Support Worker Training Curriculum (16 modules)

22 November 2020 By John

Below, you’ll find the list of lessons within this course. You can start wherever you like. Once you’ve chosen a lesson from the list, click the ‘Open’ button to open the lesson in a new tab. When the lesson’s completed, you can exit by closing the tab or by clicking ‘Exit Course’ on the top right-hand side of the page. If you’d like to download a PDF version of the content, you can find this once you’ve clicked on the lesson link in the list below. After you’ve finished all 16 modules, you can go to your Profile page to retrieve your certificate.

The Provincial Peer Support Training Curriculum course takes approximately 40 hours to complete. To receive a Certificate of Completion you must first register for the course on the Registration page to create an account.

Course Content

Modules Status

1

The Foundations – Provides participants with a foundational overview of the core competencies, values and practices of peer support work.

2

Peer Support Wholeness – Provides participants with an extensive overview of peer support services and the differences between the peer support role and other roles within the system.

3

Unpacking our Biases – In this module, participants are equipped to see and acknowledge their unconscious and conscious biases, and to question and challenge them.

4

Self Determination – This module looks at what self-determination is and how peer support workers can avoid simply giving advice, and instead support people to trust themselves.

5

Cultural Humility – Provides participants with the skills to develop plans for creating safe, culturally sensitive and humble environments for the people they support.

6

Understanding Boundaries: What it means to co-create them – This module explores boundaries and the co-creation of boundaries between peer support workers and the people they serve.

7

Connection & Communication – This module focuses on cultivating compassion and empathy through active listening, reflection and connection.

8

Healing Centred Connection Principles in Trauma Informed Care – This module examines the negative impacts of trauma on health allowing peers to identify the key components of trauma-informed care while supporting post-traumatic growth.

9

Social Determinants of Health – This module will show how complex social factors affect health outcomes and create health disparities for peers and the populations they serve.

10

Supporting Someone Who is Grieving – This module takes a broad look at the impact of loss and trauma, the process of grief and how to hold space for someone as they navigate that grief.

11

Supporting Someone Who uses Substances – This module will give participants a working knowledge of harm reduction principles and support them in challenging the many myths around substance use and substance users.

12

Mental Health: Supporting those in crisis – You will be able to formulate a peer support-based response to supporting someone through a crisis.

13

Goal Planning – This module will encourage participants to apply a strengths based approach to supporting someone in the process of goal planning.

14

Building Personal Resilience – In this module we will talk about the importance of self-compassion while challenging systems of oppression and supporting those who are impacted by them.

15

Family Peer Support – This module defines the role of a family peer supporter and the application of peer support in assisting families navigating complex systems.

16

Working with Youth & Young Adults – This module will dig into the unique application of peer support principles to working with youth and young adults.

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This project is funded by the B.C. Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions, and project managed by BCcampus. Released July 2021.

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