Wellness for Peer Professionals, Clinicians and

Family Members

This training is facilitated live or virtually via Zoom.  Deb Rhoades will deliver this 8-hour training. For Zoom trainings, participants must have access to both audio and video connection and must fully participate.

This Rhoades to Recovery Training is pending approval from ASAP-NYCB for CRPA and CARC Continuing Education renewal hours and CARC Elective (Initial Certification). It is also approved by OASAS for CASAC, CPP and CPS Renewal Hours.  Social Work Continuing Education hours are available upon request.

This 8-hour training was developed by Friends of Recovery NY, Rhoades to Recovery and Erin Wiggins, CRPA in order to provide tools and resources to the helping workforce as well as family members caring for loved ones impacted by addiction/recovery.

Those of us working in the helping profession as well as other caregivers, often struggle with our own self-care and wellness.  Most "wellness" trainings focus on the potential problems associated with not taking care of oneself when helping others.  While these are important to understand, this training will not only explore the issues of vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, stress and burnout, it will offer many practical and easily adaptable wellness solutions so that we can balance our helping roles with our professional and personal wellness and growth.

Participants will:

1. Gain an understanding of the challenges of caring for people with addiction; identify and validate experiences and explore obstacles to self-care and wellness.
2. Understand the importance, benefits and personal responsibility of helper wellness.
3. Define and explore the components of wellness (8 dimensions of).
4. Create a Personal Responsibility/Wellness/Self-Care plan.
5. Be able to identify and practice at least 3 specific wellness techniques.
6. Develop accountability strategies and plan.
7. Gain understanding of necessary adjunct assistance, support and resources.