Educational Enhancement CASAC Online
Become a Certified Peer Advocate / Peer Support Specialist
60-Hour NAADAC-Approved Training Program
NAADAC-Approved Provider
Online, self-paced + instructor support
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Are you ready to transform your lived experience into a powerful force for healing and hope?
Educational Enhancement CASAC Online presents our new Peer Advocacy and Support Specialist Training Program—a 60-hour, NAADAC-approved course designed for those who want to become Certified Recovery Peer Advocates (CRPA) or Peer Support Specialists. This training prepares you to make a lasting impact in the lives of others through empowerment, compassion, and recovery-informed practice.
Whether you’ve walked the road of addiction recovery yourself or supported someone through it, this course is your opportunity to step into a professional role where your experience becomes a tool for change.
Why Choose This Training?
Clinical services can often feel cold or disconnected, peer support specialists bridge the gap—offering connection, mutual respect, and authentic care grounded in shared experience.
This training is not just about passing an exam. It’s about becoming a credible, confident, and compassionate advocate who brings hope, resilience, and recovery to life for others.
Through this NAADAC-approved course, you’ll learn how to
- Support others through person-centered, trauma-informed, and culturally humble approaches.
- Navigate complex systems and connect peers to the services they need.
- Practice ethically and maintain professional boundaries in challenging environments.
- Help people see their strength, even when they can’t yet see it themselves.
Who This Program Is For
This 60-hour online training is ideal for:
- Individuals in recovery seeking to become CRPA-certified.
- Aspiring Peer Support Specialists or Peer Advocates.
- Mental health or substance use professionals looking to deepen their peer-oriented knowledge.
- Harm reductionists, Recovery Coaches, or case managers wanting to expand their toolkit.
- Anyone with lived experience who wants to support others in recovery professionally.
Course Overview
Our comprehensive Peer Advocacy and Support Specialist Training Program covers everything you need to become an effective peer worker in today’s evolving care systems.
Training Objectives
1. Define Your Role
Understand your unique position within the recovery ecosystem as a Peer Support Worker or Specialist—not as a clinician, but as a guide, a mentor, and an advocate.
2. Ground in Core Values
Embrace the guiding principles of autonomy, respect, hope, and mutuality that define successful peer relationships.
3. Support Individual Recovery Journeys
Learn how to meet people where they are, whether they are abstinent, using harm reduction strategies, or participating in Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT).
4. Master the Tools of Peer Advocacy
Build strong skills in active listening, reflective responding, motivational interviewing, and conflict resolution.
5. Document and Communicate Professionally
Understand how to keep records confidential, professional, and recovery-oriented.
6. Implement Trauma-Informed and Culturally Humble Care
Recognize trauma, support safety, and provide inclusive, affirming support to people from all backgrounds.
7. Navigate Ethical Dilemmas
Stay grounded in ethics—learning to manage dual relationships, uphold confidentiality, and work with integrity.
8. Promote Harm Reduction and Wellness
Learn how to reduce risks, support MAT, and design individualized wellness plans that address mind, body, and spirit.
9. Mentor, Motivate, and Lead
Guide others through recovery using your experience, motivational strategies, and strengths-based mentoring.
10. Crisis Intervention and Advocacy
Prepare for crisis response and help peers access the services they need through effective advocacy.
11. Sustain Your Own Wellbeing
Develop a personal self-care strategy to prevent burnout and stay emotionally balanced while supporting others.
12. Reflect and Grow
Assess your strengths and areas for improvement and explore pathways for continued professional development in the peer support field.
Course Description
Our Peer Advocacy and Support Specialist Training Program equips participants with the practical knowledge, interpersonal skills, and ethical foundation required to serve effectively in recovery-oriented systems of care. The curriculum emphasizes trauma-informed practices, cultural humility, person-centered care, and harm reduction approaches. The training also includes in-depth modules on mentoring, documentation, service planning, and ethical considerations unique to peer advocacy.
Training Curriculum
Section 1: Introduction to Peer Advocacy
Section 1 provides a foundational understanding of the peer support role, emphasizing core advocacy principles, multiple recovery pathways, person-centered care, and the importance of cultural humility in delivering inclusive, recovery-oriented services.
1. What is a Peer Support Worker/Specialist?
2. Historical Moment in Peer Advocacy
Historical moments of peer advocacy—born from grassroots recovery movements—have shaped its core principles of mutual support, shared experience, and empowerment.
3. Core Values, Principles, and Recovery in Peer Advocacy Support
4. Cultivating Cultural Humility and Inclusion for People in Recovery
5. Introduction to Person-Centered Principles
Section 2: Mentoring and Education
This section builds essential skills for peer advocates, including effective communication, accurate documentation, and trauma-informed support. Participants learn to develop wellness plans, apply harm reduction strategies, and provide informed guidance around Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT)—all while fostering trust and promoting holistic, person-centered recovery.
1. Essential Communication Skills
Develop critical communication skills, including active listening and reflective responding, to build trust and foster meaningful connections with individuals in recovery.
2. Documentation for Peer Advocacy Support Services
Gain the knowledge and skills needed to document peer advocacy services effectively, ensuring that records are accurate, confidential, and in line with professional standards.
3. Peer Advocacy Support: Working from a Trauma-Informed Perspective
Learn how to integrate trauma-informed care into peer advocacy services, recognizing the impact of trauma on recovery and providing sensitive, supportive care.
4. Peer Advocacy Wellness and Service Planning
Understand how to create wellness and service plans that promote holistic recovery, addressing well-being’s physical, emotional, and social aspects.
5. Peer Advocacy Support and Harm Reduction
Explore harm reduction strategies that can be employed in peer advocacy support, helping individuals reduce the risks associated with substance use while working toward recovery.
6. Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT)
Gain a comprehensive understanding of Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) and how peer advocates can support individuals utilizing MAT as part of their recovery journey.
Section 3. Ethical Considerations in Peer Advocacy
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Becoming a Certified Peer Advocate Support Specialist Starts Here with our 60-Hour NAADAC-Approved Training Program.
What Makes This Program Different?
Flexible. Affordable. Real.
At Educational Enhancement CASAC Online, we don’t just teach from a textbook. We draw from real-world recovery, trauma-informed principles, and decades of experience educating New York’s top addiction professionals. Our CRPA training is 100% online, self-paced, and designed for people who want to learn in a way that fits their life.
You’ll gain the practical tools, human insight, and ethical foundation needed to thrive as a Peer Support Specialist or CRPA—whether you plan to work in treatment centers, harm reduction agencies, emergency rooms, or grassroots recovery organizations.
Certification and Continuing Education
This training fulfills the 60-hour education requirement for CRPA certification and aligns with NAADAC national peer credentialing standards. It’s also a valuable foundation for those pursuing advanced credentials like the Recovery Coach, CPRS, or Peer Specialist titles in other states.
Upon completion, you’ll receive a certificate of completion suitable for use in applying for CRPA or similar peer certification processes.
Course Format
Total Hours: 60 hours
Format: Online, self-paced + instructor support
Approval: NAADAC-Approved Provider
Access: One fee for all course materials.
Cost: Affordable payment plans available
Total Hours: 60 hours
Format: Online, self-paced + instructor support
Approval: NAADAC-Approved Provider
Access: One fee for all course materials.
Cost: Affordable payment plans available
Each module includes
Video lectures
Workbooks and PowerPoint presentations
Practice quizzes
Suggested resources for further study
Start Your Journey as a Peer Support Leader
Your lived experience is powerful. This training helps you transform that power into professional purpose.
Enroll today in the 60-Hour Peer Advocacy and Support Specialist Training Program and take the first step toward becoming a Certified Recovery Peer Advocate.
Your future—and someone else’s recovery—could start with this choice.
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Educational Enhancement CASAC Online
NAADAC Approved Provider | Peer-Led | Recovery-Informed