Sunday, May 18, 2025
5/18/2025
Oregon Peer Delivered Services Coalition - Mental Health America of Oregon (MHAO), a peer-run nonprofit, proposes to form the Oregon Peer Delivered Services Coalition (OPDSC). The program goals are to (1) enhance consumer participation, voice, leadership, and empowerment statewide to effect systems change and improve the quality of mental health services; (2) enhance knowledge, skills, and abilities within mental health service and/or peer support providers related to recovery and trauma-informed approaches; and (3) emphasize and build consumer leadership within the organizations and in the community, as well as through partnerships and collaboration with allied stakeholders. This project will promote activities related to the following: peer support values and standards, trauma-informed peer support, health equity, and inclusion. The proposed activities include training, leadership, and skills development; trauma-informed and gender responsive peer support and peer certification standards; diversity and cultural responsiveness; partnership development, and integrated care and wellness. Through partnership with Oregon's Coordinated Care Organizations, the Oregon Health Authority and other healthcare entities, the Coalition will aim to assume the role of the certifying body for peer specialists in the state and achieve independent sustainability.
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