SELF-CARE & SUPPORT
TRAINING & CERTIFICATIONS
- Compassion Fatigue and Self-Care Resources for Crisis Counselors: Strategies to prevent compassion fatigue, recognize signs of burnout, and promote resilience through self-care.
- Insight Timer: Free meditation and mindfulness app offering guided meditations, breathing exercises, sleep support, and relaxation tools.
- Professional Quality of Life (ProQOL-5): Free, validated self-assessment tool to measure satisfaction, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress.
- Self-Care Strategies for Managing Secondary Traumatic Stress: Practical strategies to support helping professionals recognize the signs of secondary traumatic stress, build resilience, and establish healthy boundaries.
- Taking Care: Promoting Well-Being for Recovery and Behavioral Health Care Providers: A fact sheet providing strategies for preventing burnout, promoting well-being, and supporting self-care among recovery and behavioral health professionals.
TRAINING & CERTIFICATIONS
- Core Competencies for Peer Workers: Foundational knowledge, skills, and values that guide effective and person-centered peer support practice.
- Michigan Certified Peer Recovery Coach (CPRC) Certification: Outlines Michigan's certification requirements, training pathways, and continuing education for individuals seeking or maintaining certification as a peer recovery coach.
- National Certified Peer Recovery Support Specialist (NCPRSS) Credential: Nationally recognized certification pathway for peer recovery support specialists.