Anti Racism Training

This intensive four-to-five-day training is designed to prepare individuals to effectively serve in Peer Support roles working with justice-involved populations. The program focuses on the unique challenges individuals face during involvement with the criminal justice system and provides participants with practical tools, strategies, and lived-experience-informed approaches to support successful recovery and community reintegration.

This certificate-based training is intended for individuals who are already trained and certified as Recovery Coaches or Recovery Support Specialists and are seeking to further enhance their skills in supporting individuals returning from incarceration or navigating the criminal justice system.

Participants will gain a deeper understanding of trauma-informed engagement, recovery-oriented systems of care, advocacy, community reintegration, and the role of lived experience in supporting hope, resilience, and long-term success.

• Promote recovery principles, self-advocacy, and person-centered support practices.
• Strengthen understanding of the unique barriers faced by justice-involved individuals returning to the community.
• Develop skills to effectively support individuals navigating behavioral health, recovery, and criminal justice systems.
• Advocate for individuals receiving behavioral healthcare services when they are unable to effectively advocate for themselves.
• Inspire hope and resilience through the appropriate use of lived experience and Peer Support principles.
• Educate communities and organizations on reducing stigma associated with incarceration, addiction, behavioral health challenges, and reentry.
• Enhance participant understanding of ethical boundaries, trauma-informed care, cultural responsiveness, and recovery-centered engagement.

To support meaningful engagement and interaction, virtual trainings are limited to a maximum of 25 participants per session.

Many employees approach mandatory cultural competency or diversity trainings with low expectations, often viewing them as another required workplace obligation rather than a meaningful opportunity for growth. Too often, these trainings fail to create authentic dialogue, challenge perspectives, or strengthen organizational culture in a lasting way. As a result, organizations miss valuable opportunities to build trust, improve communication, and create more inclusive and equitable workplace environments.

This interactive full-day workshop is designed to move beyond surface-level conversations and engage participants in meaningful discussion around unconscious bias, inclusive leadership, systemic inequities, and the impact of race and culture within organizations and institutions. Participants will explore how history, lived experience, and social conditioning shape workplace culture, leadership practices, decision-making, communication, and organizational systems, including the criminal justice system, behavioral health systems, and public institutions.

Facilitators will incorporate personal and professional lived experiences, evidence-based dialogue, and practical strategies to help participants identify unconscious bias, strengthen cultural awareness, and build more inclusive and accountable workplace practices. The training creates space for honest conversation, reflection, and engagement while encouraging participants to examine how bias can impact relationships, team dynamics, service delivery, leadership, and organizational outcomes.

This workshop is intentionally designed to be engaging, interactive, and solutions-focused. Participants will have opportunities to ask questions, share experiences, reflect on their own perspectives, and learn from the lived experiences and cultural backgrounds of others in the room. The goal is not only to increase awareness, but to support organizations in developing stronger leadership, healthier workplace cultures, and more equitable systems that improve outcomes for employees, clients, and communities.

*CECs available upon request. 

Urban trauma is a term that is commonly heard but rarely explored in meaningful or professional settings. It is often one of the most overlooked, misunderstood, misdiagnosed, or undiagnosed forms of trauma impacting individuals and communities today. Unlike a single traumatic event, urban trauma is frequently experienced as ongoing exposure to violence, poverty, instability, systemic inequities, addiction, incarceration, community loss, and chronic stress.

According to the American Psychological Association, chronic stress is a long-term form of stress resulting from ongoing feelings of despair, hopelessness, helplessness, family dysfunction, poverty, and traumatic childhood experiences. For many individuals living in underserved urban communities, these experiences become normalized over time, often leading people to become emotionally numb or desensitized to violence and crisis as part of everyday life.

This workshop is designed to help participants better understand the realities and long-term impacts of urban trauma on individuals, families, and communities. Through lived experience, evidence-based discussion, and interactive dialogue, participants will explore how trauma influences behavior, relationships, emotional regulation, addiction, incarceration, and overall wellness. The training also highlights how unresolved trauma can contribute to intergenerational cycles of pain, survival, and systemic involvement.

Participants will gain insight into how urban trauma often goes unrecognized, particularly among individuals who have adapted to environments where violence, instability, and survival-based thinking are normalized. The workshop creates space for honest conversation, reflection, and learning while offering practical tools and strategies to better understand trauma-informed and healing-centered approaches.

1. Define the urban trauma experience and its impact on individuals and communities.
2. Explore the connection between urban trauma, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES), and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
3. Examine lived experience narratives that illustrate the long-term effects of trauma exposure.
4. Understand the relationship between urban trauma, intergenerational PTSD, addiction, violence, and incarceration.
5. Identify the long-term emotional, psychological, physical, and community impacts associated with chronic trauma exposure.

Continuing Education Credits (CECs) available upon request.

 SOUP:  Success Options Under Pressure: 

SOUP is one of our signature workshops that we are very proud to offer to many diverse populations.  SOUP was originally created for individuals leaving incarceration. This is a one day workshop that can be broken up into six sessions for Returning Citizens, Peer Employees, or the General Public. The basis of this workshop is to get attendees to understand that things happen that the best planning could not prevent. In this workshop we teach attendees to understand the philosophy around the "pebbles and the boulders"; the boulders are things you can see and plan for, however, it's the pebbles that trip us up. Whether you are being released from prison or struggling in your career , SOUP is for you. Just like in  a soup recipe, there are different ingredients that make a soup delicious. There are different steps that will make you successful.

Come and try our Successful Options Under Pressure workshop, you will not look at life the same.  

  Fresh Out: 

This workshop provides an insight into working with justice-involved individuals. Participants will not only learn what must be done when coming home but also learn the difficulty and frustration that accompanies this process.

Learning Objectives:

At the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Gain a better understanding how the long-lasting effects of incarceration can play out in one’s life.

• Recognize numerous barriers returning citizens face upon release.

• Build relationships for clear communication about issues related to reentry, trauma, race, addiction, incarceration, and mental health.

This can be a full day or a half-day workshop depending on the organizational need. 

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*CECs available upon request.

Game Changers:

Persons In Recovery (PIR) Supporter are people who have lived experienced with mental illness, and or addiction.  In their role as PIR Supporters, they use their personal experiences, along with relevant training and supervision, to facilitate, guide, and mentor another person’s recovery journey. This is done by instilling hope, role modeling recovery, and supporting people in their own efforts to reclaim meaningful and self-determined lives in the communities of their choice. This is why we call them Game Changers and in this training, attendees are reminded of the importance of their role. We also cover the importance of good PIR leadership. Many organizations have PIR employees but are not sure of the best way to supervise them. This is a common problem heard across the country. Game Changers brings PIR and Supervisors together in order to form a strong professional relationship and teaches one about the other. The goal of this workshop is to create good PIR leaders, whether the individual identifies as a person in recovery or not. 

This workshop varies based on organizational need.