Webinar: All You Need to Know About California's Peer Support Specialist Certification Program
Webinar: All You Need to Know About California's Peer Support Specialist Certification Program
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Webinar:
All You Need to Know About California's Peer Support Specialist Certification Program
Join us for a live webinar
In this training, you will learn about recent changes to California's Peer Support Specialist Certification Program. Our Guest Speaker will give a brief overview of SB 803 and how to get certified by the state in September 2022.
*This training is presented from a peer perspective by people who have lived experience with mental disabilities.*
Live Caption and ASL Interpreter Available
When:
July 20, 2022
4:00 PM
Pacific Time
About the webinar:
Join us as we share information about how to become certified as a Peer Support Specialist in California. Our guest speaker will talk about the passage and implementation of Senate Bill 803 and the certification process.
Come join us as we learn:
- What is Senate Bill 803?
- How to become a state-certified Peer Support Specialist
- Requirements for “Grandparenting-In”
- Certification Exam Process
- Initial Peer Support Specialist Certification
- How to become certified to bill Medi-Cal
Speakers:
Tiffany Elliott was in California's first Peer Employment Training in California in 2006, where she was introduced to the transformative power of the recovery model of mental health care. At the time of her training, the mental health professionals in her life told her Social Security was her only means of obtaining a sustainable income and insisted she would never complete her post-secondary education. She would go on to receive her BA in English from California State University San Bernardino and her MFA from New Mexico State University with a Graduate Minor in Gender Studies. Elliott has worked in the mental health recovery field for a total of over 13 years. She is currently working at California Association of Mental Health Peer Run Organizations as the Program Manager for the Peer Empowerment Partnership which is supporting the peer-centric roll-out of California's SB 803 Peer Support Specialist Certification.