The Role of Peer Support & Harm Reduction in Integrated Care

Session Description:  This webinar is designed to deepen behavioral health providers knowledge and awareness of the important role that peer support and harm reduction play in supporting healing and empowerment. The presenter will discuss the ways that systemic injustices such as racism, sexism, ableism, transphobia, transmisogyny, and psychiatric oppression impede wellness and how harm reduction approaches carried out by peer supporters can create space for fostering mutuality and connection building. The session will include practical implications for behavioral health providers to collaborate with peer support specialists.

Presenters: Sera Davidow

Presenter Emails: sera@wildfloweralliance.org 
 
Presenter Bio:  Sera Davidow is a mother, activist, author, trainer, and filmmaker. For the last 17 years, she has worked as a part of the leadership team for the Wildflower Alliance (formerly known as the Western Mass Recovery Learning Community). She is also a founding member of the Hearing Voices Board USA, and writes regularly for Mad in America. Her particular areas of expertise include trauma, suicide, voice hearing, self-injury, anti-oppression work, and more. Learn more at: /tinyurl.com/OMSD17

Learning Objectives: After completing this session, participants will be able to:

• LO1: Identify three ways that systemic injustices impede mental health and wellness.
• LO2: Describe the role of harm reduction in peer support
• LO3: Apply strategies for collaborating with peer supporters as an integrated behavioral health provider
   

Accessibility statement: SF State Department of Counseling’s Equity and Justice – Focused Counselor Training project welcomes persons with disabilities and will provide reasonable accommodations (including ASL interpretation) upon request. If you need reasonable accommodations for this event, please make your request by contacting Julie Chronister jchronis@sfsu.edu by Friday 3/28/2025.

Closed captioning and Spanish language translation will be available during the webinar. Habrá subtítulos e interpretación en español disponibles durante el seminario web.
 

Continuing Education Information 

Real-time attendance at this webinar has been approved for 1.0 hours of continuing education credit via our partnership with Counseling and Psychological Services at the University of California at Berkeley who is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. This  course  has  been  approved  for  1.0   hours of continuing education  credit for LMFT, LPCC and /or LCSW as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. Counseling and Psychological Services, University of California at Berkeley maintains responsibility for the program and its content. Please direct concerns about this course or its content to Stephanie Takeuchi stephanie.takeuchi@berkeley.edu

There is no cost to attend this webinar. Participants desiring CEU credit for attending this webinar will be directed to sign in at the start of the webinar and will be required to provide an evaluation of the session directly following the webinar and verify their participation and attendance. CEU certificates will be emailed to participants who successfully complete both the sign in and evaluation process. If you have trouble with accessing the sign in or evaluation, you can contact Tiffany O’Shaughnessy taosh@sfsu.edu 
 
HRSA Disclaimer: This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award totaling $1,905,974 with zero percentage financed with non-governmental sources. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.