COE Peer Projects
This project was created to address the shame and stigma caregivers with mental health and/or substance misuse challenges and their children often feel from their communities
What is the Parenting Project?
This video was created to promote the importance of the parenting role, reduce stigma, and lessen feelings of isolation among parents with mental health and substance use challenges.
What is the "Parenting in Recovery" video?
This collaborative research approach involves community members, researchers, and other stakeholders in the research process, recognizing the unique strengths that each brings.
What is Community-Based Participatory Research?
This federal organization's acronym is SAMHSA
What is the Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration?
This peer advocacy organization's acronym is MAPWC
What is the Massachusetts Peer Workforce Coalition?
This quality-improvement project was created to help the Southeast Recovery Learning Community (SERLC) become more culturally diverse, and have a more vibrant and engaged presence of BIPOC and other minoritized individuals in the communities it serves.
What is the CAIRE Project?
This list of suggestions for provider care when working with parents was a result of the research done by the peer consultants.
What is the Provider Wish List?
This type of data represents information and concepts that are not represented by numbers. They are often gathered from interviews and focus groups. Peer Specialists are pushing to see more of this from DMH.
What is qualitative data?
These 25 newly opened facilities have the acronym CBHC.
What are Community Behavioral Health Centers?
This is the starting salary for peer specialists at DMH.
What is $27.13?
This project was created to learn what Certified Peer Specialists in MA think are some of the successes and challenges to effective peer support specialist engagement in larger healthcare systems or Recovery Learning Communities.
What is the Peer Integration Project?
This video was created with the children of a few of our peer consultants to highlight the adult children’s experiences of growing up with a parent with a mental health condition or addiction struggle.
What is “Perspectives of Adult Children on Parents in Recovery"?
This research tool in the form of a table helps to narrow down key themes from a research project.
What is a matrix?
This grant offering organization's acronym is PCORI.
What is Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute?
This is a phenomenon where peer support workers try to appease others and fit into overly hierarchal clinical understandings of, and interactions with, the people they serve.
What is Peer Drift?
This initial project started in 2019 where the main themes of the listening groups for this project were: 1) Reducing stigma, 2) Improving care access, 3) Providing wholistic care, 4) Including peers in research, and 5) Strengthening the quality of providers.
What is the original needs assessment?
This support group was developed out of one of the peer research projects and is held on the third Thursday of each month.
What is Peer Support for Peer Supporters?
This tool is used to examine transcriptions of listening groups.
What is rapid analysis?
This standing committee of the Mental Health Advisory Council to DMH has the acronym SMHPC.
What is the State Mental Health Planning Council?
This COE team member received a lifetime achievement award at the 2024 Certified Peer Specialist Awards at the State House in June.
Who is Valeria Chambers?