Kentucky Administrative Regulations › Title 908 - CABINET FOR HEALTH AND FAMILY SERVICES - DEPARTMENT FOR DEVELOPMENTAL HEALTH, DEVELOPMENTAL AND INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES › Chapter 2 - Mental Health › Section 908 KAR 2:220 - Adult peer support specialist

Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 1, July 1, 2024
RELATES TO:
				KRS
				210.010,
				210.040,
				210.370-485
NECESSITY, FUNCTION AND CONFORMITY:
				KRS
				194A.050(1) requires the
				secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate
				administrative regulations necessary to protect the health of Kentucky citizens
				and to implement programs mandated by federal law or to qualify for the receipt
				of federal funds.
				KRS
				210.450 authorizes the secretary to
				promulgate administrative regulations governing qualifications of personnel,
				standards for personnel management operations and consultation in ascertaining
				local needs for community programs for mental health or individuals with an
				intellectual disability.
				KRS
				222.211 authorizes the secretary to
				promulgate administrative regulations to assure that there is the provision of
				prevention, intervention, and treatment services for both juveniles and adults
				to address the problems of addiction to alcohol and other drug abuse within
				individuals, families, and communities. This administrative regulation
				establishes the minimum eligibility, training, and supervision requirements for
				an adult peer support specialist.
Section
			 1. Definitions.
(1) "Adult peer
			 support" means emotional support that is provided by an adult peer support
			 specialist to others with similar mental health, substance use, or co-occurring
			 mental health and substance use disorders in order to achieve a desired social
			 or personal change.
(2) "Adult peer
			 support specialist" means a self-identified consumer of mental health,
			 substance use, or co-occurring mental health and substance use disorder
			 services who has successfully completed the adult peer support specialist
			 training.
(3) "Adult peer support
			 specialist services" means structured and scheduled non-clinical, therapeutic
			 activities provided to a consumer by an adult peer support specialist in
			 accordance with this administrative regulation.
(4) "Consumer" means an individual who
			 receives adult peer support services.
(5) "Department" or "DBHDID" means the
			 Department for Behavioral Health, Developmental and Intellectual
			 Disabilities.
(6) "Recovery" means
			 a process of change through which a consumer improves in health and wellness,
			 lives a self-directed life, and strives to reach full potential.
(7) "Regional community mental health center"
			 or "CMHC" means the board established by
			 KRS
			 210.380 and governed by
			 KRS
			 210.370 to
			 210.485.
(8) "Training curriculum" means a total
			 package of learning activities designed to achieve the goals of the training
			 program with:
(a) The objective that trainees
			 will acquire the specific knowledge and skills (competencies) needed to perform
			 the duties of an adult peer support specialist; and
(b) Four (4) primary components, including:
1. Content or information to be transmitted,
			 including:
a. Theoretical framework;
b. Conceptual rationale;
c. Best standards of practice;
d. Application to direct practice;
			 and
e.  Congruence between and
			 within sections;
2.
			 Organization of the curriculum, including structure, format, and sequencing,
			 incorporating:
a. Concordance with the
			 natural learning process;
b. Design
			 of each section linked to specific learning objectives, with adequate time
			 provided for each;
c. Linkages
			 between sections;
d. Knowledge and
			 skills that are conceptually related, or that are performed together on the
			 job, are taught together; and
e.
			 Retention and understanding facilitated by principles of sequencing (from
			 simple to complex, from the universal to the exception, and from fundamental to
			 more refined applications) and repetition;
3. Training methods appropriate to adult
			 learners in an applied setting, in each section or topic area, including:
a. Discussion to promote exploration and
			 understanding of the topic;
b.
			 Experiential exercises or simulations; and
c. Presentation of the same concepts using a
			 variety of learning strategies (for example, hearing, seeing, modeling, and
			 then practicing) to ensure that trainees with different learning styles can
			 assimilate the knowledge; and
4. Evaluation methods, including:
a. Trainee knowledge assessment through
			 testing, with achievement of a passing aggregate assessment score of at least
			 seventy (70) percent; and
b.
			 Trainee performance reviews of trainers.