Peer Partners: Setting Healthy Boundaries

Peer partners have the invaluable role of walking alongside youth and parents currently receiving services (child welfare, probation, and/or mental/behavioral health). They share their own experiences overcoming challenges, advocate for the rights of their clients and help navigate their way through the system. And peer partners have the unique challenge of sharing their personal lived experience while also maintaining healthy boundaries, which can sometimes be very clear cut, and sometimes be confusing.

This training supports participants in learning:

  • Where does the peer partner role begin and end?
  • Types of potentially harmful dual relationships when working as a peer partner
  • Ethical behaviors of peer partners, including behavior in the working relationship, empowerment, confidentiality, honesty, self-disclosure, conflicts of interest
  • Importance of self-care

“Professional boundaries for peer workers are the spaces reserved between the peer workers’ power and vulnerability and the peers’ power and vulnerability.”
—Adapted from the National Council of State Boards of Nursing, NCSBN

Course Code
508105
Title Start Date End Date Enrollment
Peer Partners: Setting Healthy Boundaries Jun 6 Jun 6 Enroll Now