MCHD EHE Series:  Peer Power:  The Impact of Lived Experience on our Health and Human Serivces Landscape

Panelists will describe and discuss the importance of employing peers/people with lived experience - in substance use disorder and mental health recovery, HIV, incarceration and other areas across the health and human services landscape.  Objectives include:

1.  Describe the rationale for employing peers/people with lived experience - in the health and human services landscape.

2.  Understand basic frameworks for implementing peer based interventions.

3.  List barriers that people who use drugs, people living with HIV, and others, encounter when trying to achieve health and wellness in today's healthcare landscape.

4.  Describe the effects of stigma related to drug use, HIV mental health conditions and incarceration in healthcare interactions.

This program offfers 1.0 Nursing & Social Work CEU.

For more information and log in information, please contact Emily.Brown@montgomerycountymd.gov