Pennsylvania Peer Support Coalition Podcast
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We are a podcast dedicated specifically to Peer Professionals: individuals who use their lived experience to assist others with the same conditions or in the same situations they have been in before (usually with mental health or substance use). Peer Support is a wide concept dating back as far as human interaction. In Pennsylvania, the Peer Profession has evolved over the last decade and a..
Pennsylvania Peer Support Coalition Podcast
1y ago
Richard Blews from the Grapevine Center drops by our podcast to discuss all of the great work they are doing in Butler County and to share some of his insights from his journey of recovery ..read more
Pennsylvania Peer Support Coalition Podcast
1y ago
This month we welcome Kathy Quick, Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Mental Health Consumers' Association, as our guest. We have a very candid conversation about PMHCA and the state of Pennsylvania's recovery services ..read more
Pennsylvania Peer Support Coalition Podcast
1y ago
In this month's episode our guests talk about the unique challenges facing youth and young adults and how they are working to improve behavioral health services for this group ..read more
Pennsylvania Peer Support Coalition Podcast
1y ago
In this episode, Drew Neal, a Certified Recovery Specialist (CRS) drops in to discuss recovery services, the differences and similarities between a CRS and a Certified Peer Specialist, as well as some of the challenges facing the CRS world currently ..read more
Pennsylvania Peer Support Coalition Podcast
1y ago
In this episode two Certified Peer Specialists discuss their experiences with coming full circle from being an individual receiving services to working to support others ..read more
Pennsylvania Peer Support Coalition Podcast
1y ago
This extra episode is intended to give you an opportunity to get to know us better as hosts. We hope you enjoy getting more familiar with us ..read more
Pennsylvania Peer Support Coalition Podcast
1y ago
Chris Lunsford, a member of the Call for Change Steering Committee, joins us to discuss the updates being made to this essential document guiding us toward a recovery-oriented system. Chris is a CPS from the Lehigh Valley and works for PMHCA (Pennsylvania Mental Health Consumer's Association) in a position funded by the PaPSC Appalachian Regional Commission grant ..read more
Pennsylvania Peer Support Coalition Podcast
1y ago
Wendy Heatley joins us to discuss the power in language and how we can all learn to use respectful language within the behavioral health field ..read more
Pennsylvania Peer Support Coalition Podcast
1y ago
In our second episode about Managed Care Companies and their relation to individual recovery, we sit down with Kim MacDonald-Wilson and Tracy Carney from Community Care Behavioral Health ..read more
Pennsylvania Peer Support Coalition Podcast
1y ago
In this episode we explore the topic of moving from self-harm to self-care with Abigail Boccardi. Abigail is a Certified Peer Specialist in the state of Pennsylvania and shares openly about this part of her recovery journey ..read more