Intentional Peer Support (IPS): Foundation for Various Roles in Human Support

Angel PraterExecutive Director

www.folktime.orgFor more information about IPS-OR and other trainings contact:

Danielle Grondin: Director of Training and IPS-OR HUB information at:

dgrondin@folktime.org

call/text 971-271-9966

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Overview of IPS core training• Module 1

– Learning vs. helping– The 4 tasks overview

• Module 2– Worldview– Listening differently– Boundaries and limits– Suicide and Self Harm

language of Pain• Module 3

– Trauma informed peer support

– Mutual responsibility– Power and Privelage– Crisis and Opportunity

• Module 4– Working in challenging

situations– Self care

• Module 5– Co-supervision– Final projects

• Module 6 (Oregon Required)– Consumer/survivor/ex-patient

Movement – Charting Progress Notes– Confidentiality & HIPAA– Reporting Abuse & Neglect

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Introduce yourselves by saying:

– Your name and where you’re from

– One thing that inspires you about peer support

– One thing you think people might be interested to know about you

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Intentional Peer Support: Foundation for Various Roles in Human Services:

• What are the various roles of peer and human services supports and how does IPS apply.

• IPS provides a relationship based model to maintain authentic and holistic foundation which allows for mutually walking with individuals.

• The word Intentional in IPS, specifically means intentionally doing something different and non-traditional.

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1000’s of people all over Oregon using IPS in every county of Oregon in many different roles!!

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IPS

Agency’s and partners using IPS? To name a few of the areas/agency's using IPS with various staff roles NOT ONLY PEERS and MENTORS!!• All employees of the David Romprey Oregon Warmline• Deschutes County- Hospital emergency rooms, peers centers• GOBHI region in various areas of PDS including but not limited to Warmline• Telecare Corporation all crisis program staff at CATC and other programs around the country• LifeWorks NW Crisis Team (Clinical team and PSS/CRM team)• All FolkTime Staff/volunteers• Drop in centers• Oregon State Hospital (various staff/customers)• WVP Health Authority Clinical staff and Peer Providers• All IRON TRIBE members • Portland State University Students• NAMI members • Crisis respite centers• Youth programs (youngest trained thus far in Oregon is 13 years old)• Senior programs• Veterans Programs• Faith based community programs• Homeless and low income programs• Addictions treatment programs• Correctional programs- Coffee Creek Correctional Counselors• And many more…

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IPS outside of Oregon learn more:www.intentionalpeersupport.org

• IPS is used in at least 40 + US states and is a leading National and International recognized training. It has been trained in China, New Zealand, Australia, Canada and Japan to name a few.

• It has been used to help the United Nations communicate and move towards what they want. This is a perfect demonstration of how universal it is.

Its NOT only a training about support its about SOCIAL CHANGE!

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Various Roles:

• Peer Support Specialists (PSS)• Certified Recovery Mentors (CRM)• Family Partners/coaches• Masters in Social Work (MSW’s)• Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselors (CADC 111)• Qualified Mental Health Associates (QMHA)• Qualified Mental Health Professionals (QMHP)

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Various Roles Continued

• Faith based leaders and partners• Correctional Staff and Administration• Care Coordinators/Case Managers • Community Health Workers (CHW)• Various educators (traditional and non-traditional schools)• Psychiatrists (Psych)• And many more human service providers….

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“As peer support in mental health proliferates, we must be mindful of

our intention: social change. It’s not about developing more effective

services, but rather about creating dialogues that influence on all of our understandings, conversations, and

relationships.” - Shery Mead

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History of IPS

Connection

Worldview

Mutuality

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What is my purpose in this relationship?From Me Helping You to Us Learning Together

From Helping to Learning

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∞ What might I think is my purpose in

the relationship?

∞ How might it feel to be in this role?

∞ How might I start to think of myself

if I’m always in this role?

∞ How might I measure success in the

relationship?

∞ Whose needs am I often meeting?

When I’m the…

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Helper

Helpee

Learner

• The focus is on the other person changing, and we pre-determine outcomes

• Our conversations get stuck on solving problems

• We lose sight of our own learning

• We both influence each other

• We learn to communicate

with honesty and openness

• Our relationship becomes a

model for other relationships

• No one is “the problem”

When it’s about the individual

When it’s about the relationship

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From Individual to Relationship

▻Fear-based relationships are based onwhat is wrong and what we are afraid isgoing to happen

▻Hope-based relationships are based onwhat is possible, where we are going,and how we can together createsomething new

From Fear to Hope & Possibility

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Predictive

Prying

Prescriptive

Power-imbalanced

The Four P’s of Fear

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The Fifth P - Possibility

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✴Sitting with Discomfort

✴Holding Multiple Truths

✴Willingness to Take Risks

The Challenges

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The Tasks of IPS

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Connection

Worldview

Mutuality

Moving Towards

Is the first task because without it,

you can’t go much further

Creates a sense of belonging that

“we’re in this together”

Builds trust, which is necessary for

learning together

Opens the door for both of us to be

present

Connection

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Ordering, directing

Cautioning

Wanting to make a difference

Arguing or lecturing

Telling people what they should do; moralizing

Being unaware of your power

Agreeing, approving, praising

Over-relating

Interpreting or analyzing

Reassuring or sympathizing

Questioning or probing

Withdrawing, joking

Changing the subject

Steering the conversation, or pushing your own agenda

SomeDisconnects

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ConnectionDisconnection

Reconnection

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• Check it out (What happened?)

• Own your own part/apologize

• Ask what the other person needs

• Ask for what you need

Reconnection

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What is worldview?

What is worldview?

What are some of the influences that shape worldview?

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WORLDVIEW

Told Story: IcingWhat is said/seen= Truth

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Untold Story: Cake Ingredients Contributors =Truth

•Ethnicity•Birth-order

•Religion •Culture etc.

WORLDVIEW

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Why is paying attention to Worldview important?

• We can explore “how we know what we know”

• We can stay curious about the “stories behind the story”

• We can create new worldviews together by learning from one another

Mutuality: Redefining Help

Makes peer support unique

Gets us out of a “service” type relationship

It’s only working if it’s working for both of us

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You Me

The Relationship

Shared Responsibility

Mutual Responsibility

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What is Possiblerather than

What is Wrong

Moving Towards

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IPS is about…

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Connecting & reconnecting with each other, culture, community

Looking at how we’ve come to make sense of the world

Putting energy into mutual learning relationships

Re-defining help and services

Figuring out how to make things work for both of us

Supporting and challenging to move towards the life we want

Changing the world!

THANK YOU!!

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