Certified Digital Peer Support Specialists
A Certified Digital Peer Support Specialist is a trained peer supporter with expertise in digital peer support technologies such as smartphone apps, digital analytical techniques such as digital phenotyping, and practical issues like accessing free or low-cost technologies, privacy and ethics, and informed consent.
Digital peer support supports recovery, is built on the evidence, and has been shown scientifically to increase the capacity of peer support specialists and service users to engage technologies– leading to better mental health, physical health, and social health outcomes. Certification to become a Digital Peer Support Specialist meets SAMHSA’s criteria for recovery-based practice and the core competencies of peer support.
The certification includes 12 clock hours that can be submitted to certification boards. Click here to learn more to become a Certified Digital Peer Support Specialist or click here to contact us to schedule a training for your organization.
Digital Certified Older Adult Peer Support Specialists (D-COAPS)
The 12-hour Digital Certified Older Adult Peer Support Specialists (D-COAPS) is designed to promote rapid uptake of digital peer support and is designed specifically to address the needs of older adults, including evidence-based principles associated with normal aging and technology, accessing and engaging older adults in technology-based recovery services, resources to age in place, aging successfully, education on whole health, sharing your lived experience of aging with mental health and/or co-morbid physical health challenges, and defining values & setting goals. The certification includes 12 clock hours that can be submitted to certification boards. Click here to learn more to become a Certified Older Adult Digital Peer Support Specialist or click here to contact us to schedule a training for your organization.
On-Demand Digital Peer Support Certification Short Course
This certification is designed to promote rapid uptake of digital peer support and is designed specifically to address the needs of working from home. This certification does not assess a person’s ability to use technology, but rather incorporates the latest scientific evidence of digital peer support. This 4-hour certification includes training on: Digital Communication Skills; How to Engage Service Users with Technology; Technology Literacy and Usage Skills; Bonding and Connection through Technology; Available Technologies; Privacy and Confidentiality; Monitoring Digital Peer Support; How to Address a Digital Crisis. This certification includes a knowledge test. We require an 80% to meet certification requirements.
Click here to purchase this ON-DEMAND online course that you can take in your own time. You will be able to begin the course once you purchase it, and you may complete it at your own pace. Go to the “Curriculum” tab of the course to begin.