Peer Specialist Training

NAPS no longer offers peer specialist training. We encourage anyone interested in such training to contact the training entities listed below. NAPS does not endorse any particular training program but strongly urges peer specialists or persons interested in becoming a peer specialist to obtain training. Please note that most of the organizations listed below provide continuing education for peer specialists.

If you belong to an organization that provides peer specialist or related training and would like to be listed here, please e-mail your contact information to: steveh@naops.org

Contacts (in alphabetical order):

Consumers as Providers Training Program (CAP--University of Kansas)
        University of Kansas

        Beth Oswald, Coordinator

        1545 Lilac Lane

        Lawrence, KS 66044

        (877) 458-6804 (USA toll-free)

        boswald@ku.edu

        Website: www.socwel.ku.edu/projects/SEG/

Depression Bi-polar Support Alliance

        Lisa Goodale: lgoodale@dbsalliance.org

        Website: www.dbsalliance.org

Institute for Recovery & Community Integration

       Jean Whitecraft: jwhitecraft@mhasp.org

                             215-751-1800 ext 213.

       Website: www.mhrecovery.org

Peer Training, out of Aurora, Colorado, provides a "2 day start-up" seminar for organizations interested in using the "Training the Trainer" model. Information can be obtained at
www.peertraining.com<http://www.peertraining.com/>. 

Recovery Innovations

        602-636-4444

        Website: www.recoveryinnovations.org