Recovery Work Group
2025-02-11 16:30 - 18:00, 2025-03-11 16:30 - 18:00, 2025-04-08 16:30 - 18:00, 2025-05-13 16:30 - 18:00, 2025-06-10 16:30 - 18:00, 2025-07-08 16:30 - 18:00, 2025-08-12 16:30 - 18:00 (America/Denver) | Zoom web meeting, CO, United States

Public Awareness Work Group
2025-02-19 12:00 - 13:30, 2025-05-21 12:00 - 13:30, 2025-08-20 12:00 - 13:30 | Zoom web meeting, CO, United States

Affected Families and Friends Work Group
2025-02-20 12:00 - 13:30, 2025-05-15 12:00 - 13:30 | Zoom web meeting, CO, United States

Harm Reduction Work Group
2025-03-11 13:00 - 14:30, 2025-05-13 13:00 - 14:30, 2025-07-08 13:00 - 14:30 | Zoom web meeting, CO, United States

Safe Disposal Work Group
2025-03-12 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-06-18 10:30 - 12:00 | Zoom web meeting, CO, United States

Treatment Work Group (canceled)
2025-03-27 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom web meeting, CO, United States

Provider Education Work Group
2025-04-17 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-07-17 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom web meeting, CO, United States

Recovery Friendly Workplaces Work Group
2025-04-21 14:00 - 15:00, 2025-07-21 14:00 - 15:00 | Zoom web meeting, CO, United States

Peer Support Lunch and Learn -- Carrying the Weight: Trauma, Boundaries, & Resilience in Peer Support Work
2025-05-20 12:00 - 13:30 | Zoom Webinar
Tuesday, May 20th, Noon to 1:30 p.m.
Session from Noon to 1 p.m., with group networking from 1:00 to 1:30 p.m.
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This session will examine different aspects of trauma and how trauma shapes our work as Peer Support Specialists. This session will also dive into setting and holding boundaries with friends and family, as our work as Peer Support Specialists often makes us the “go to” person in our social circles. There will also be a discussion surrounding how, as Peer Support Specialists, we are held to different standards and assumed to be the role model in our social circles. Lastly, there will be a dive into how resilience is created and maintained in rural communities, and a rural perspective on resilience will be explored.

Treatment Work Group
2025-05-22 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-07-24 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom web meeting, CO, United States

Peer Support Lunch and Learn — Mindfulness and Stress Management for Peer Support Professionals
2025-05-27 12:00 - 13:30 | Zoom Webinar
Tuesday, May 27, Noon to 1:30 p.m.
Session from Noon to 1 p.m., with group networking from 1:00 to 1:30 p.m.
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How do we recharge? How do we maintain presence in our jobs and is there anything left for the rest outside of our jobs? Most of us end with no; which is human. But the larger question of, “How do we give ourselves what we need?” and “What are you doing that’s creating more conditions for health, balance, healing?”
Learning how to pay attention and develop intentional stability to allow us to live our life on purpose.

Peer Support Lunch and Learn -- Bridges, Not Barriers: Peer Support for Multi-System Involved Families 1
2025-06-17 12:00 - 13:30 | Zoom Webinar
Tuesday, June 17th, Noon to 1:30 p.m.
Session from Noon to 1 p.m., with group networking from 1:00 to 1:30 p.m.
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Bridges, Not Barriers is a 2 part mini-course designed to equip Peer Support Professionals with the tools, strategies, and insight needed to support families navigating complex systems and individual challenges. Participants will explore the key characteristics that define effective peer support, and gain practical skills for fostering trust, building resilience, and supporting sustainable change in families facing systemic challenges.
This opening session explores the unique qualities and lived experiences that shape truly impactful Peer Support Professionals. We’ll examine how peers differ from clinicians and service providers, and why that difference matters deeply to the families they serve. We will address how best to support families and individuals who may be struggling through many situations such as navigating loss, domestic abuse, and/or exiting treatment services.

Peer Support Lunch and Learn -- Bridges, Not Barriers: Peer Support for Multi-System Involved Families 2
2025-06-24 12:00 - 13:30 | Zoom Webinar
Tuesday, June 24th, Noon to 1:30 p.m.
Session from Noon to 1 p.m., with group networking from 1:00 to 1:30 p.m.
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Bridges, Not Barriers is a 2 part mini-course designed to equip Peer Support Professionals with the tools, strategies, and insight needed to support families navigating complex systems and individual challenges. Participants will explore the key characteristics that define effective peer support, and gain practical skills for fostering trust, building resilience, and supporting sustainable change in families facing systemic challenges.
In this session, we’ll dive into practical strategies for helping families achieve real, lasting change while navigating their local systems of care, such as: child welfare, juvenile justice, probation/ court involvement, and behavioral health care. Participants will explore how to identify and build on family strengths, connect families to the right supports, and foster resilience in the face of systemic challenges. Through a trauma-informed and empowerment-centered lens, we’ll focus on how peer support can be a catalyst for sustainable transformation.

Peer Support Lunch and Learn — Cultural Responsiveness 1: The 3 A's of Culturally Responsive Care
2025-07-01 12:00 - 13:30 | Zoom Webinar
Tuesday, July 1st Noon-1:30PM
Session from Noon to 1 p.m., with group networking from 1:00 to 1:30 p.m.
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Session 1: The 3 A’s of Culturally Response Care
Through the use of a scenario, we will challenge ourselves to think about how our personal experiences and identities impact how we engage withy people and communities different from our own. Using the 3 A’s of Culturally Responsive Care, we will explore the difference between cultural competence and cultural humility with the objective of becoming lifelong learners.

Peer Support Lunch and Learn — Cultural Responsiveness Cultural Responsiveness 2: It Doesn't Stop Here, Strategies for Being Proactive
2025-07-15 12:00 - 13:30 | Zoom Webinar
Tuesday, July 15th, Noon to 1:30 p.m.
Session from Noon to 1 p.m., with group networking from 1:00 to 1:30 p.m.
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Session 2: It Doesn’t Stop Here, Strategies for Being Proactive
Expanding upon our work in Session 1, we will collectively discuss the challenges that current realities have on our work as peer support specialists and what we can do to proactively engage through cultural humility.
