Overview

Core to the YAPM role is the ability to share one’s lived experience with a serious mental health challenge with purpose and intent. This is not something most clinically trained supervisors are familiar with. Understanding how to support YAPMs in sharing their story is critically important to being an effective YAPM supervisor.

Toolkits & Supervision Guides

Is your organization looking to expand or enhance the young adult peer mentoring (YAPM) services it provides? Or, perhaps your organization is just getting started with YAPMs. Either way, you’ve come to the right place! We designed this easy-to-use, practical organizational self-assessment tool to improve your agency’s YAPM implementation. You can use this resource to assess your agency’s YAPM implementation needs and connect to easily accessible free resources to address your agency’s specific needs.

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This toolkit created by The Learning & Working Center at the Transitions Research & Training Center at UMass was designed to help employers successfully navigate the employment of young adult peer mentors. It covers topics such as best practices in hiring peers, creating reasonable workplace accommodations, and supervision of young adult peers.

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This toolkit was created by the City of Philadelphia’s Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual Disabilities to assist behavioral health provider organizations in integrating peer providers into their service settings.

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This guide was created specifically for direct supervisors of young adult peers. It offers practical tools and strategies to help supervisors support the professional development of young adult peers. Updated July 2019, new sections on 1) recruiting, hiring & screening young adult peer mentors and 2) training and on-boarding young adult peer mentors; and information added to the self-care and role modeling sections.

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Training Vignettes

These vignettes can be used by supervisors to help YAPMs recognize examples of ideal, developmental, and unacceptable peer mentoring practice.

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