Peer Workforce Integration: A Needs Based Toolkit for Organizational Readiness
Channel: Rita Cronise
Date: 2020-04-28

NYC Peer and Community Health Worker Workforce Consortium in collaboration with the Academy of Peer Services

Series Introduction (The Peer Workforce Integration Toolkit)

This webinar introduces the needs-based self-assessment and toolkit to advance organizational readiness for the integration of peer support services into the workforce. It provides background on the development of the self-assessment, which provides an important first step toward determining an organization's specific path toward the implementation of peer services as described in the rest of the series. 

After viewing this session, you will be able to answer the questions:
• What is the Toolkit? 
• What are the origins of the Toolkit? 
• Key takeaways that informed the Toolkit 
• What is the Self-Assessment? 
• How does the Toolkit work? 
• Why customize the Toolkit? 
• Moving from Assessment to Action 
• Toolkit demonstration and organizational profile 

Toolkit and Implementation Guide is Available here: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/providers/resources/supporting-peers-and-community-health-workers-in-their-roles.page 

Presenter: Aviva Cohen, Coordinator of the NYC Peer and Community Health Worker Workforce Consortium 

Broadcast on July 26, 2019 

Academy of Peer Services
http://www.academyofpeerservices.org/ 

Part of the Virtual Learning Community:  Face and Places of Peer Support Webinar Series: 
https://aps-community.org/faces-places-webinar-series/