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COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER -
PEER RECOVERY & PEER SUPPORT
75 CEUs
The Community Health Worker - Peer Recovery & Peer Support™ (CHW - Peer™) curriculum requires the completion of 200 hours (75 hours of education/125 hours of supervised experience) of training. Peer services are considered a specialty of community health. This CHW-PRPS™ dual designation curriculum will explore the essential CHW competencies with 10 hours covering the relevant KSAs in each of the 3 common peer domains and 16 hours in the peer ethics domain. The CHW-PRPS™ curriculum will cover the Innovation in Behavioral Health model established by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and is designed for practitioner-competent level healthcare workers.
The Maryland Addiction & Behavioral-Health Professionals Certification Board (MABPCB) is recognized among the state's licensing and certification boards by the state of Maryland.