Wisconsin Peer Recovery Conference

August 17-19, 2022

Madison Marriott West

Health and Human Services, See Stevens Point Offerings

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Wisconsin Peer Recovery Briefing | Baronial 18-19, 2022
Preconference: Ideals & Boundaries Training for Peer Specialists | August 17, 2022
Madison Marriott West

Conference Objectives

Demonstrate aspects of constructive peer support within customs services mental health and substance utilise recovery, enhance individual skills to provide more than effective personal back up, and explore innovative applications of peer support in communities

Who Should Attend

Advocates, individuals interested in supporting others more effectively, Mental Wellness Professionals, and Peer Specialists.

What are nosotros looking for?

Proposals that align with our track objectives and/or demonstrate evidenced-based practices, support diverse pathways of recovery, also every bit highlight the direct inclusion of people with lived feel following the move of Peer Support, WI Certified Peer Specialists, and Certified Parent Peer Specialists are encouraged to employ.  For more than information, click on the Workshop Proposal Submission push.

Proposals are due past 11:59 PM CST Friday, March four, 2022.

If you have whatsoever questions regarding the proposal submission process, delight contact Nicole Ravens, Conference Coordinator, via telephone at 608.787.1111 or email Nicole.Ravens@ilresources.org.


Registration opens leap 2022.

Registration for the preconference "Ethics & Boundaries Training for Peer Specialists" will open when conference registration becomes available.

More 2022 conference information coming shortly.

Picture of Keynote Presenter Cassandra Walker, LCSW, CCTP​
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Cassandra (Cassie) Walker, LCSW, CCTP

Founder and Owner of Intersections Heart for Complex Healing PLLC and Host of the Woke Mental Wellness Project

Cassie is a Blackness Queer Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Therapist, Activist, Author, and Gamer. They are a Liberatory Decolonial healer, certified NARM Therapist, and certified Hypnotherapist and NLP Provider. They are also a former Certified Recovery Support Specialist and person living with Complex Trauma and Bipolar Disorder. They nowadays a various array of intersectional topics related to race, gender, sexuality, BDSM and Kink, mental health, liberation, and decolonization. Cassie provides therapy to adults, relationships, and groups and they specialize in the intersections of trauma, Identity, and mental wellness. Cassie is the founder and owner of Intersections Center for Complex Healing PLLC and host of the Woke Mental Wellness Podcast.

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Kyle Brewer, BS, PRPS

Peer Specialist Program Manager, NAADAC, Little Stone, Ark.

Kyle Brewer, BS, PRPS, is the Peer Specialist Program Manager for NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals. He works for NAADAC remotely from Little Rock, AR, managing the Arkansas Peer Specialist Programme. He oversees the development and implementation of an innovative 3-tier credentialing process (Cadre, Advanced, Supervision) for the Arkansas Peer Back up Model.

Brewer earned a Available of Science degree in Habit Studies from the Academy of Central Arkansas in 2013. He went on to use his lived experience with drug and alcohol addiction to become a Certified Peer Recovery Specialist, where he became the first Peer Recovery Specialist in Arkansas to exist stationed in an emergency department. He led the development and implementation of this position at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and multiple hospitals across the country.

In 2020, he became one of the get-go ten Certified Peer Back up Supervisors in Arkansas. Brewer is a trainer on a variety of topics, including Peer Support, Peer Supervision and Narcan administration. He serves on numerous committees and boards to develop and strengthen the Arkansas Model and amend peer support services beyond the United States. About recently, he was awarded the 2021 Arkansas Peer Leadership Award which acknowledges and celebrates exemplary leadership that has significant and positive impact on advancing the peer motion and practices of the peer support profession.
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Jimmy McGill, PRPS

Managing director of Peer Services, Arkansas Department of Health Services

Overcoming a lifetime of incarceration and twenty-3 years of substance use disorder, author and speaker Jimmy McGill has defied his past and found his purpose. His babyhood was marked by trauma, but what should take destroyed him is now beingness used to transform recovery awareness across the country.  His recently published volume, "From Prison house to Purpose," is a detailed account of his journey to recovery.

Jimmy is the Director of Peer Services for the Arkansas Drug Manager's role, and he is a certified Peer Recovery Peer Supervisor (PRPS). His lived feel has allowed him the chance to lead the development of the Peer Recovery Infrastructure throughout Arkansas.  He has assisted in the training of over 330 Peer Recovery Specialists.

His dedicated efforts take allowed Arkansas to place peer recovery inside the Department of Human Services, the Division of Youth Services, the Department of Wellness, emergency rooms, drug courts, jails, reentry centers, prisons, law enforcement partnerships, Recovery Community Organizations (RCOs) and community service centers. He spearheaded the development of the Arkansas Model of Peer Recovery which has now gained national attending.

He and his wife are the founders of Next Step Recovery Housing, a non-profit recovery foundation that houses people in recovery. Jimmy was the founding fellow member of both the Arkansas Peers Advisory Committee (APAC) and the Arkansas Peers Achieving Recovery Together (A.P.A.R.T) coalition and is the current chair for the SAMHSA Region vi Peer Support Informational Committee. Jimmy is besides an executive member of the National Peer Recovery Alliance (NPRA).

Continuing Instruction Hours (CEHs)

Continuing Education Hours are a measure of participation in continuing education programs. Individuals should consult with their professional clan and/or licensing board regarding the applicability of the conference for their profession. It is the individual'due south responsibility to written report CEHs earned to their appropriate credential or licensing board.

The 2022 conference will be seeking approving of CEHs from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Betoken Department of Sociology. A link will be provided after the conference for registrants to receive a printable, personalized CEH Certificate of Completion via email.

Special Accommodations


Reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities will exist fabricated if requested at least iv weeks in accelerate. Please contact UWSP Continuing Education at uwspce-conf@uwsp.edu for more information.

For questions about the conference, contact Nicole Ravens, Briefing Coordinator:

Nicole Ravens, Conference Coordinator

Independent Living Resources

608-787-1111

For aid with conference registration, electronic mail uwspce-conf@uwsp.edu or call Continuing Education at 715-346-3838.


Full refunds granted upon receipt of written request to uwspce-conf@uwsp.edu. Counterfoil r equests must be received by Tuesday, August ii, 2022. Requests received between Wednesday, Baronial 3-Tuesday, August 9, 2022 will exist charged a $25 processing fee. No refunds will be given on or afterwards Midweek, August ten, 2022. Substitutions tin exist made at any time, but no shows will exist responsible for the full briefing fee.