RCORP-Planning III Meeting: Building Meaningful Engagement With People With Lived Experience

In this session, a former RCORP-Planning, current RCORP-Implementation, and newly awarded RCORP-Psychostimulant grantee shared how it used multisectoral collaboration, lived experience, and second-chance employment to build a program from the ground up. What was once a vision has now evolved into PEERhelp, a program staffed by Certified Peer Recovery Specialists with more than 20 years of incarceration that now serves over 1,500 individuals in northeast Tennessee and southwest Virginia. The session also featured a short documentary prepared by an RCORP-Planning III grantee highlighting those with lived SUD experiences who share their unique perspectives of then and now.

Casey M. Carringer, MBA, Director of Clinical Engagement, and Jason Pritchard, CPRS/RPRS, Program Manager, Ballad Health, PEERhelp

Tonya Brown, MSW LMSW, Project Manager, and Cheryl DeBatt, MS, Vice President, Westcare Arizona