History of the Peer Movement
Important Definitions
Engagement & Safety Training
Recovery & Wellness Manual
IRTS fun facts
100

The Mental Hygiene Movement started in this decade.  

What is the 1920s

100

The IRTS is a proactive, time-limited, team-based service that is designed to provide recovery-focused assessment, linkage to treatment, and comprehensive ongoing support for individuals with opioid and other substance use disorders. 

What is IRTS – Intensive Recovery Treatment Support Program

100

The process where we introduce the (person) to the service relationship, explain our role and try to find a common ground to build on.

What is engagement

100

This serves as the road map that an individual can use to guide their recovery journey.

What is the Recovery and Wellness Support Plan

100

Who were the first 2 Peer Health Navigators to start with IRTS?

What is Joanna and Corey

200

The Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book debuted in this decade.

What is the 1930s

200

Any FDA-approved medication used in the treatment of an Opioid Use Disorder. 

What is Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT)

200

An empirically supported, time-limited case management model designed to prevent homelessness and other adverse outcomes following discharge from hospitals, shelters, prisons and other institutions.

What is the CTI model

200

Means letting the person know what’s going to happen.

What is Orienting

200

Peer certification must be obtained within this time frame.

What is within 12 months of hire

300

The Conference on Human Rights and Psychiatric Oppression occurred this year.

What is 1972

300

This person assists individuals to “navigate” the maze of criminal justice, treatment, health care, and social service systems and is a non-medical professional who can serve as an expert guide through the often-confusing health care and social service system bureaucracy.

What is a Peer Health Navigator

300

“…contact with any individual who would otherwise be ignored (or underserved) …in non-traditional settings for the purpose of improving their mental health, health, or social functioning or increasing their human service and resource utilization.” 

What is Outreach

300

Self-care, Recovery Treatment, Living Situation, Employment and Education, Relationships and Social Supports, Physical Health and Wellness, Income, Benefits and Entitlements, Transportation and Managing Stress, Crisis and Change.

What are the Nine Recovery Domains

300

The date that IRTS officially began.

What is February 1, 2018

400

The author of On our own: Patient controlled alternatives to the mental health system (1978)

What is Judi Chamberlin

400

According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration7 (SAMHSA), this is defined as “a process of change through which individuals improve their health and wellness, live a self-directed life, and strive to reach their full potential.”

What is Recovery

400
  • Prioritize the client’s self identified needs & preferences
  • Helping relationship is collaborative & invitational
  • Support, information & options are offered
  • Services are tailored to the individual.

What is Person Centered Engagement

400

Include talents, experiences, knowledge, habits, and routines that contribute positively to a person’s life.

What are Strengths

400

Approximate number of ties that Micah owns.

What is 20

500

This is the Decade of Recovery and Federal initiatives promoting peer services occurred during this decade.  

What is the 1990s

500
  • Holistic
  • Hope
  • Person driven
  • Many pathways
  • Culturally-based and influenced
  • Supported by addressing trauma
  • Involves individual, family, and community strengths and responsibility
  • Based on respect
  • Supported by peers and allies
  • Supported through relationships

What are the Recovery Principles

500
  • Let your supervisor know where you are at all times, enter weekly schedule into outlook calendar
  • Learn as much as possible about a situation before you go out
  • Don’t plan outreach in areas you have a good reason to believe are inherently dangerous
  •  We aware of gang areas, colors, paraphernalia etc and don’t wear it
  • Always carry business cards & ID

What are safety practices

500

Goals should be formatted in this way.

What are SMART goals. Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Time-limited

500

Which team had the first ever referral?

What is the Southern Team

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