Events

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ECHO: Building Connection through Curiosity

This session will focus on navigating through judgement when providing peer support. We’ll talk about strategies to remain curious with the people we’re supporting, why it’s important to move through judgement, and what to do when we get stuck. Trainer: Tim Saubers Subject Matter Expert: Vanessa Williams About ECHO: The purpose of this ECHO series...

ECHO: Alternative Peer Crisis Approaches

This session will explore alternative ways to provide peer support to people who are experiencing a crisis. This will focus on honoring self-identification of crisis, remaining neutral, and de-centering ourselves...

ECHO: A Peer-Oriented Approach to Suicide

This session will look at ways to support people who want to die while remaining focused on the alternative aspects of peer support. This includes ways to honor bodily autonomy,...

ECHO: Honoring Autonomy in Youth Peer Support

This session will focus on strategies to ensure that we’re honoring the wants and needs of youth we’re supporting. It will include ways to support youth self-determination while navigating sometimes...

ECHO: Supporting People Navigating Re-Entry

During this session we’ll explore different ways to support people who are returning to community after incarceration. This will include understanding unique considerations when supporting people returning, ways to build...

ECHO: Navigating Grief and Loss

This session will discuss ways to support people who have experienced loss including a death, the loss of human rights, major life changes, and more. We’ll look at strategies for...

ECHO: Visioning an Alternative Future

In this session we’ll talk about the future we’d like to create and what it takes to get there. We’ll flip the script from naming the things we don’t want...

ECHO: Uplifting People Who Use Drugs

This session will focus on strategies to center the voices of people actively using drugs when talking about living experiences and ways to de-center and de-personalize abstinence when discussing substance...

ECHO: Building Community Led Spaces and Services

This session will look at ways to build peer-led spaces and services in partnership with the communities they’re meant to serve. This will include strategies to maintain accountability and integrity,...

ECHO: Blending Peer Values with Practice

In this session we’ll focus on translating peer values such as self-determination, multiple pathways, and de-centering ourselves, into action when providing peer support. This will include concrete examples of how...