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Peer Professional Employer Toolkit

Plan for Integration Worksheet 1: Staff Learning

This is a worksheet from the Peer Professional Employer Toolkit. Print this worksheet to help your organization plan for integration with staff learning.

Developing a plan to integrate a future peer professional into existing teaming begins with staff learning (Bochicchio et al., 2023; Cooper et al., 2024; Gillard et al., 2013; Mancini, 2018; SAMHSA, 2023). Before completing this activity, it is recommended the team first complete the cultivate staff readiness activities found in the preparation phase. Note: this activity is to be completed before the peer professional is hired and onboarded.

Meeting set up

  • This meeting could be convened by the leadership team or by a team’s supervisor.
  • Prior to this meeting, the staff should individually review the materials presented in the exploration phase with attention to the Wisconsin model, what peer professionals do, benefits, evidence, and limits.
  • Set a meeting date well enough in advance to ensure maximum attendance. Send out agenda with background materials attached. Consider advertising this meeting as an in-service or staff retreat. Time could vary from one to three hours.

Meeting roles

  • Facilitator: leadership team member or supervisor; ensure inclusive sharing by all staff
  • Notetaker: document discussions for future reference
  • Participants: program-specific staff share perspectives on learning, teaming, and getting ready for the new service

Meeting agenda

  1. Pair and share: From the background materials, what did you learn about peer recovery support services?




     
  2. Round robin: What was your top takeaway? (Remaining items can be group discussions.)




     
  3. What aspects of the Wisconsin model (processes, tasks, skill sets, principles) seemed familiar? What aspects seemed new or unfamiliar?




     
  4. What might be some recovery-oriented principles (see SAMHSA’s 10 principles (PDF)) that already inform the services we provide? Which principle(s) seem missing at this point?




     
  5. What benefits do we see a peer professional bringing to our team, our services, and our service participants?




     
  6. How might we describe what the peer professional does in ways that highlight the unique contributions of peer recovery support services?




     
  7. How will we continue learning about peer recovery support services? Specifically, how might we use time during individual and group supervision to continue this conversation?





     

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