Via Hope envisions a world where lived experience is valued within systems and communities.
Upcoming Trainings Calendar
Mental Health Peer Specialist
Monday, June 23, 2025, 9:00 CDT AM - 5:00 CDT PM
Mental Health Peer Specialist training is a five-day, 40-hour training designed to provide individuals with the necessary skills and knowledge to become certified as a Mental Health Peer Support Specialist […]
RECOVERY INSTITUTE –
ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE
A Focus on Engagement & Local Solutions
Recovery Institute initiatives are designed to support the implementation of new practices, shift organizational culture, promote innovation, and increase collaboration within and among teams, preparing agencies to meet the challenges and opportunities arising in our rapidly changing environment.
Working as a Team To Make A Difference
How Peer Specialists Fit Into
The Healing and Recovery Model
Peer support specialists are people who have lived experience with a mental health or substance use disorder and are in recovery. Peer support services are designed and delivered by formally trained peer support specialists to promote recovery and resiliency in individuals seeking to begin or supplement their own recovery. Peer support services are offered in a variety of settings, from recovery centers and hospitals to homeless shelters and criminal justice settings. Learn more about the role peer support specialists play in recovery here.
How It’s Going
What Individuals and Organizations Say About Their Via Hope Training Experience
What it Takes
The Path to Becoming a Certified Peer Specialist
STEP
1
Review the online orientation materials and complete the self-assessment. This will enable you to apply for training on the Core training to become a Peer Specialist.
STEP
2
Apply and take the Core training. Complete the application and submit it with payment by credit card.
STEP
3
Apply for Supplemental Training. Via Hope offers the Mental Health Peer Specialist Training.
STEP
4
Apply for certification with (TCB) Texas Certification Board: Refer to TCB’s website for all information on how to apply for certification.
Since Day 1
Via Hope: Peer Specialist Training Leaders in Texas and Nationwide
Via Hope has been committed to the mission of changing the way we think about mental and behavioral health since 2010, when we created our first training program for Certified Peer Specialists. We trace our roots to the 2003 final report of the President’s New Freedom Commission Achieving the Promise, which called for fundamentally transforming the nation’s mental health system to a consumer, family, and youth-driven Recovery Model. We continue to provide training and consultation for people in recovery, their family members, youth, and mental health professionals to help make Texas’ mental health system become focused on recovery and resilience.
To learn more about our mission and work, visit our decade report.
🎉 WRAP® is coming back! Details will be available soon, including dates, location and registration. Subscribe to our newsletter to receive updates: viahope.us10.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=53ecbddb317f531b882513adb&id=90e02250aa
If you'd like to host a WRAP® event at your organization, please contact [email protected].
🌈 What is WRAP®? 🌈
Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP®) is a personalized wellness and recovery system born out of and rooted in the principle of self-determination. WRAP® is a wellness and recovery approach that helps people to: 1) decrease and prevent intrusive or troubling feelings and behaviors; 2) increase personal empowerment; 3) improve quality of life; and 4) achieve their own life goals and dreams. Working with a WRAP® can help individuals to monitor uncomfortable and distressing feelings and behaviors and, through planned responses, reduce, modify, or eliminate those feelings.
While this tool can be used by anyone who wants to make a positive change in the way they feel and react to life, it often has a specific focus such as managing mental health or substance use challenges or re-entering society following incarceration.
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Via Hope is accepting applications for the Reentry Peer Specialist Certification Training on March 17th - 22nd, 9am - 5pm CST.
This virtual training is developed for formerly incarcerated individuals who wish to help other people through recovery and reentry. It's designed to directly address the barriers to becoming a "whole person" that many people face after release, as well as the trauma people experience before, during and after incarceration.
⭐️ Prerequisites: Texas residents must complete Core Training before RPS
✅ Application fee: $950
⏰ Apply by Sunday, March 9th: viahope.org/event/reentry-peer-specialist-training-3
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Via Hope is accepting job applications for the following positions:
⭐️ Workforce Program Manager
⭐️ Workforce Apprenticeship Manager
⭐️ Communications Manager
⭐️ Systems and Data Manager
⭐️ Curriculum Manager
⭐️ Training Manager
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