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

Academic Units

CEUs

0.55

Section Number

234WIS620

Instruction Method

Online class

Section Notes

The format of this virtual training will be on Zoom. You will receive login information via email once your enrollment has been received.

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Section Schedule

Thur., Jun 6th, 2024, 9:00am to 4:00pm

Fees

Instructors

Ebony Chambers

Ebony Chambers has provided youth and family services for over 15 years and brings both professional and personal life experiences to her work. As a mother who has worked through and navigated multiple systems with her own child, she brings that experience to her work and provides the oversight of advocacy and support to families in the greater Sacramento and Yolo County communities. Prior to her role as director of Family and Youth Partnership at Stanford Youth Solutions, she worked as an administrator for residential care for youth. She is actively involved in the community, serving as the co-chair of the UC Davis Parent Partner Advisory Committee, a member of the Mental Health Services Act Steering Committee and other community initiatives.