This programme enables learners with lived experience in mental health and addiction, disability or chronic health conditions to support and empower others with similar lived experience in their recovery journey.
What you will learn:
- Build authentic, culturally connected peer relationships with clients and whānau
- Demonstrate self-awareness and practise within ethical and professional boundaries
- Use a strengths-based approach to support the holistic wellbeing of self and others
- Develop hope, resilience, mana, self-determination and autonomy in clients to plan and progress their goals and aspirations
Achieving this qualification will help you to:
- Find employment in a peer support role in a range of settings such as mental health, addiction, disability, or other significant health conditions
- Use your lived experience to support the sustainable living of others with similar experience
- Build on your own recovery journey
