Peer voice NC: advancing leadership.building upon the original SCN grant, PRN will enhance pvnc to expand, embed and sustain peer leadership to influence policy and system change. - project title:…

Peer voice NC: advancing leadership.building upon the original SCN grant, PRN will enhance pvnc to expand, embed and sustain peer leadership to influence policy and system change. - project title: peer voice north carolina (pvnc): advancing leadership building upon the first statewide consumer network grant that promise resource network (PRN) received in 2019, PRN will enhance pvnc to expand, embed, and sustain peer leadership to influence policy and system change. This will be achieved with the creation of a recovery-focused, peer-oriented training & technical assistance center with a repository of materials to build skills and leadership for the peer workforce and peer-run organizations. North carolina's peer workforce demographics: NC has a large peer workforce since medicaid and state funding for peer support began in 2006. The current workforce total is 4,012 certified peer support specialists. Demographic area: data (source: 2022 nccpss data peer demographics) gender: 1,428 male, 2,584 female primary diagnostic category: 1,184 mental health, 1,467 substance use disorder, 735 CO-occurring. Education: 353 GED, 658 H.S. Diploma, 523 associates, 1200 some college, 861 bachelor's, 379 master's, 28 PHD. Employment status: 1,636 employed as cpss, 822 seeking employment, 107 volunteer, 387 students, 785 employed in other field, 495 employed in related field. Veteran status: 314 male, 119 female. Strategies/interventions: pvnc has incubated and established innovative peer and recovery practices and will continue adding to a repository of peer focused continuing education and provider trainings inclusive of peer-related practices such as emotional CPR (ecpr), intentional peer support, alternatives to suicide, when the conversation turns to suicide, hearing voices network, psychiatric advance directives (pads), trauma-informed care, shared decision making, and psychiatric rehabilitation (psyr). Project goals and measurable objectives: pvnc: advancing leadership project goals and objectives center around tow identified needs: (1) strategic and unified PSS training certification, and workforce standards, and (2) enhanced infrastructure. These needs will be addressed by achieving the following goals: -enhancing consumer participation across the state as evidenced by independent NC mental health peer-run organization achieving 501 (c) (3) status by september 2025. -increasing access to evidence-based & promising MH peer-delivered practices as evidenced by the establishment of the peer and recovery technical assistance centers. -enhancing knowledge, skills & abilities related to recovery & peer support, and peer engagement/empowerment as evidenced by the development of the peer & recovery training & technical assistance center. -increasing consumer leadership in organizations through collaboration with stakeholders as evidenced by at least 50 peers completing the established leadership & organizational development training opportunities. -training a minimum of 100 people in peer-led and peer-focused leadership, workforce, and organizational development to build capacity & sustainability of statewide consumer networks as evidenced by annual total number of trainees. -completing a minimum of 2 activities/TTA opportunities annually per coalition as evidenced by training rosters, event data, white papers, etc.