Are you ready to take the quiz to be a Peer Support & Wellness Specialist?

What do you need to do before you apply to take the quiz?

• Fax or mail a copy of your certificate of attendance indicating you have had 40 hours of peer support training with your contact information
• Be a Nebraska resident
• Register for a test day with Barb Born:
  • Barb Born
    Staff Assistant I
    DHHS-Division of Behavioral Health
    301 Centennial Mall South – 3rd FL
    P.O. Box 95026, Lincoln, NE 68509-5026
    Phone: 402-471-7644 / Fax: 402-471-7859

April 5
8 am – 5 pm
Lincoln NE
301 Centennial Mall, South-NSOB Room 1Y

This workshop is especially focused on grandparents and their role in having a grandchild with a disability. We encourage other extended family members such as aunts and uncles to attend. This workshop is not for the parents of children with disabilities but rather a way to provide support to grandparents and other extended family members.

Disabilities include, but are not limited to: Autism, ADHD, Down Syndrome, Epilepsy, Hydrocephalus, Tourette Syndrome, Intellectual and other developmental disabilities.

Saturday, April 21
St. Timothy’s Church
510 N. 93rd Street
Omaha, NE

$5/person
$8/couple

Breakfast and lunch included

Understand the facts of how alcohol and other drugs impair your ability to make healthy choices and drive responsibly. Discover your “individual” patterns, risky behaviors, needs/wants, and lifestyle of unhealthy choices that caused stressful, emotional, legal, financial and familial issues. Change to empowerment thinking, recognize the levels of unhealthy choices of use of alcohol and other drugs and design a written action plan to prevent repeat offending. Through video, understand the judicial system and law enforcement; discover “face to face” the loss, the mental and physical impairment and the personal impact on the victim’s lives; and change your attitude toward your responsibility to the potential victims, yourself, a healthier lifestyle and “pay it forward”.

Waypoint Church
6502 Sorenson Parkway, Omaha
$70 prepaid/state voucher / $85 cash at door
Registration at 7:00am, class starts at 7:15am
Contact (402) 502-9788 to register or click here for more information

DBSA Peer Specialist training prepares people recovering from mental illnesses to use their experiences to assist others as peer specialists. DBSA partners with organizations, government, and others to train, certify, promote, and advocate for peers as an essential part of the mental health workforce.

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