Description

Price: $399

This comprehensive program prepares learners for the Peer Recovery Support Specialists (PRSS) and Community Health Workers (CHW) certifications. It eqiups them with the skills to support individuals on their path to recovery while also addressing broader community health needs.

The PRSS component focuses on recovery-oriented, peer-led support strategies for individuals with substance use and mental health challenges.

The CHW component focuses on public health principles, health education, care coordination, and resource navigation to address social determinants of health and promote wellness across diverse populations.

This self-paced course is 60 Hours and requires the completion of a workbook which you will receive once you are enrolled. The course consists of ten modules (as outlined below) that meet the educational requirements as required by the International Certification and Reciprocity Consortium (IC&RC). The modules, and topic areas covered within Nevada’s Health Navigator course are as follows:

1. Advocacy (12 hours) 
   • Module 3: Public Health – 1hours 
   • Module 5: Establishing the Relationship - 5 hours 
   • Module 8: Advocacy - 6 hours 
2. Mentoring/Education (12 hours) 
   • Module 5: Establishing the Peer Relationship - 2 hours 
   • Module 7: Mentoring and Skill Development - 10 hours 
3. Recovery/Wellness Support (9 hours) 
   • Module 4: Dimensions of Recovery - 6 hours 
   • Module 6: Recovery and Wellness Planning - 3 hours
4. Ethical Responsibility/Legal Systems/Trauma Informed Crisis Care (22 hours) 
   • Module 1 and 2: Context of PRSS & CHW -   6 hours 
   • Module 4: Dimensions of Recovery - 1 hours 
   • Module 5: Establishing the Peer Relationship - 1 hours 
   • Module 6: Recovery and Wellness Planning - 1 hours 
   • Module 9: Trauma Informed Crisis Care and Risk Prevention - 2 hours 
   • Module 10:  Justice (Forensic) Peers - 1 hour  
   • Module 11:  Professional and Ethical Responsibility - 10 hours 
5. Harm Reduction (2 hours) 
   • Module 9: Trauma Informed Crisis Care and Risk Prevention - 2 hours 
6. Public Health (3 hours) 
   • Module 3: Public Health - 3 hours 

Disclaimer: This course provides a foundation of fundamental theory and best practice in health navigation. The course workbook includes practical application exercises that will allow you to think deeply about the curriculum and practice the skills that are modeled throughout the course.  However, it is not meant to be a substitute for supervised hands-on experience in the field of peer recovery and support services.

Addiction is a chronic but treatable medical condition. Often unintentionally, many people still talk about addiction in ways that are stigmatizing—meaning they use words that can portray someone with a substance use disorder (SUD) in a shameful or negative way and may prevent them from seeking treatment. CASAT Learning makes a concentrated effort to avoid the use of any stigmatizing language in our courses, however it is possible that this type of language may still be found within some of the external videos and resources linked within the curriculum.

Please Note: Completion of this course does not mean you are certified as a Peer Recovery Support Specialist (PRSS) or Community Health Worker (CHW) in the state of Nevada. This course is designed to meet the training requirements in order to apply to become a certified PRSS and CHW through the Nevada Certification Board (NCB), an affiliate board of the International Certification and Reciprocity Consortium (IC&RC). Visit NCB's website for more information on each certification.

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