Definitions #1
This is a reciprocal relationship that minimizes power differentials in which both parties can benefit from support in a give and take manner.
What is Mutuality?
This concept operates on the assumption that everyone has experienced trauma and acknowledges the need to create safe environments that are sensitive in order to reduce the likelihood of retraumatization.
What is Trauma-informed?
This Peer Professional’s primary focus is in supporting the Older Adult population.
What is a Certified Older Adult Peer Specialist?
These are peer-run organizations regionally funded by DMH that provide peer-to-peer support groups and activities, peer bridging, advocacy, and educational opportunities to support people in their wellness journey.
What is an RLC or Recovery Learning Community?
This process supports individuals to identify the tools that keep them well and create action plans to put them into practice in everyday life.
What is WRAP or Wellness Recovery Action Planning?
This concept supports each individual’s strength and wisdom to make their own choices, express their likes and dislikes, and identify their own needs.
What is Self-determination?
This is a brief sharing of a part of your recovery story that is hopeful, helpful, and relevant in that moment to the person you are supporting.
What is a Snippet?
This Peer Professional supports Transitional Age Youth (TAY) and Young Adults.
What is a Young Adult Peer Mentor?
This organization works with its network of providers to offer high-quality, accessible, and culturally sensitive health care for more than 500,000 MassHealth Members statewide.
What is the MBHP or Massachusetts Behavioral Health Partnership?
This training promotes a hopeful and rights-based approach to hearing voices, seeing visions and having related experiences.
What is the HVN or Hearing Voices Network?
This results from an event, series of events, or set of circumstances that is experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or threatening, and that has lasting adverse effects on the individual’s functioning and physical, social, emotional, or spiritual well-being.
What is Trauma?
This is a trauma-informed way of speaking with and about the people we support that is strength-based, person-first and non-clinical.
What is Human Experience Language?
This Peer Professional supports those who identify as having an addiction or substance use issue.
What is a Recovery Coach?
This organization works to improve understanding of mental health conditions and combat disparities in health services access so that individuals and families across the Commonwealth have the resources and opportunities they need to promote resilience and overall health.
What is the MAMH or Massachusetts Association for Mental Health?
This peer-centered, strengths-based program was developed to promote whole health self-management for those living with chronic physical and behavioral health challenges.
What is WHAM or Whole Health Action Management?
This describes and examines how a person’s multiple identities, such as gender, ethnicity, and sexuality, interact to create unique patterns of oppression.
What is Intersectionality?
This approach honors self-determination, dignity of risk and makes the strengths-based shift from “hopeless perspective” to one of hope, where quality of life, community integration and interdependence are the primary focus.
What is the Recovery-oriented Model?
This Peer Professional’s primary focus is supporting individuals in the court system.
What is a Forensic Peer Specialist?
This peer professional advocacy group’s goal is to safeguard the unique differences and ethics of all peer support and lived experience professions through civic engagement, social justice, health education, and trauma healing.
What is the MAPWC or Massachusetts Peer Workforce Coalition?
This training teaches 4 tenants of peer support – Connection, Worldview, Mutuality, and Moving Towards.
What is IPS or Intentional Peer Support?