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From Rhetoric to Reality: Elevating Person-Centered Planning Through Lived Experience Engagement

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Learn recently released technical guidance for organizational leaders and review best-practice recommendations for integrating peer specialists into PCP. This webinar also addresses the complex tensions that can emerge when peer staff are expected to work in ways that conflict with the core ethics and values of peer support. Ultimately, this session is a call to action—urging all stakeholders to move beyond the rhetoric of person-centered care toward a reality where planning and services are genuinely accessible, authentically recovery-oriented, and fully centered on the individual.

During this virtual webinar participants will learn about:

  • systems strategies for partnering with people with lived experience in policy and program design,
  • common tensions and role conflicts when integrating peers into PCP processes, and
  • strategies for integrating peers in ways that are consistent with the values and ethics of peer support.

AudiencesLeadership/Administration, Direct Support Practitioner

Development/Life StageAcross the Lifespan

TopicsOrganizational and Implementation Strategies

Disability Focus(es)Multiple or Cross-Disability

Author(s)J. Tondora

SourceYale Program for Recovery and Community Health

Release DateSeptember 2025

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