Peer Supporter Training
Our 8-week peer support specialist training—which was designed according to national standards and includes over 80 hours of live webinars, self-paced modules, and peer-to-peer practice—teaches people who have experience with mental health struggles and are now in recovery how to best support teens and young adults experiencing similar challenges.
Our training meets national and state standards
Our training curriculum covers the skills and strategies laid out by SAMHSA in their national model for peer support specialist certification, including techniques for active listening and selective sharing of lived experience to provide a model for hope, exploring strengths and setting goals, as well as de-escalating crisis and conflicts.
We are also a certified Medi-Cal Peer Support Specialist training provider in California, as certified by CalMHSA.
Cost of training
The fee is $1,600 per trainee.
If you are an individual interested in taking our training, please fill in this interest form. There is financial aid available if you can’t afford the full fee.
Alternatively, you can apply for a job to become a part-time peer support specialist on Peers.net. We offer training for free to successful applicants!
If you are an organization that is interested in training your staff or would like us to recruit and train new peer support specialists for you, please fill out this form. We offer discounts for bulk bookings.
