2024-2025 Catalog

BEH 1050 Peer Support Specialist Training

4 Credit hours 60 Contact hours

Provides the International Certification & Reciprocity Consortium (IC&RC) training, which includes advocacy, mentoring and education, recovery and wellness support, ethics, trauma informed care, cultural competency, whole health, substance use, mental health, and family support to those with lived experience of addiction and/or mental health diagnosis and recovery. This training is required to become a Certified Peer and Family Support Specialist (CPFS) in Colorado through successful completion of the IC&RC Peer Recovery (PR) examination.