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peer Specialist Toolkit Implementing peer Support Services in VHA This document is a collaborative project between the VISN 1 New England MIRECC peer Education Center, and the VISN 4 MIRECC peer Resource Center. Contributing authors: Matt hew Chinman, Kevin Henze, and Pat ricia Sweeney. Edited by Sha ron McCarthy page 3 Acknowledgements We thank Dan O Brien-Mazza, National Director, peer Support Services,Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Recovery Services, Mental Health Services. Dan has fully supported this project, and given expert help with many details in this document. We thank members of the VISN 4 peer Resource Center Advisory Committee: Sara Chapman, Lisa Fitzsimmons, Diana Hoke, and Steve Stanley, who reviewed several versions of this document and made thoughtful contributions.
to successfully engage in their treatment. The Peer Specialist is the newest of the two classifications for peer support providers employed in VA, but the competencies expected of PSTs are the same. Therefore, for the sake of simplicity we will use the term, “Peer Specialist” or “PS,” throughout the rest of this toolkit.
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