Podcasts about peer advocate

A regional family peer advocate shares her story navigating the complicated systems in NYC addressing housing instability and homelessness as well as how she became an advocate. Email or DM us to share your story: ⁠⁠NYCHearOurVoices@gmail.com ⁠⁠ Hear Our Voices on ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠, ⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠ account links can be found on ⁠⁠Linktr.ee/nyc_hov⁠⁠ Resources ⁠NYC311⁠ https://portal.311.nyc.gov/   ⁠DHS' Prevention Assistance and Temporary Housing (PATH) intake center ⁠- apply for shelter  https://www.nyc.gov/site/dhs/shelter/families/families-with-children-applying.page ⁠Brochure⁠https://www.nyc.gov/assets/dhs/downloads/pdf/path-brochure.pdf   ⁠HRA Guide for Housing Instability⁠ https://www.nyc.gov/assets/hra/downloads/pdf/BK-9-SOI-NewGuideForRenters.pdf     ⁠About Source of Income Discrimination⁠ https://www.nyc.gov/site/cchr/law/source-of-income.page#:~:text=Discrimination%20based%20on%20lawful%20source%20of%20income%20is%20the%20illegal,other%20forms%20of%20public%20assistance⁠FAQ for Source of Income Discrimination⁠https://www.nyc.gov/assets/cchr/downloads/pdf/materials/FairHouse_FAQs-Tenant-English.pdf   ⁠Unlock NYC⁠ (support for discrimination) https://weunlock.nyc/   Housing Vouchers ⁠Section 8⁠ https://www.nyc.gov/site/nycha/section-8/about-section-8.page   ⁠CityFHEPS⁠ https://www.nyc.gov/site/hra/help/cityfheps.page   ⁠FHEPS⁠ https://www.nyc.gov/site/hra/help/fheps.page   ⁠Special One-Time Assistance⁠ (SOTA)https://www.nyc.gov/site/hra/help/sota.page   Check out other resources: ⁠bit.ly/40pB4p8

Michelle Furgiuele is a Canadian Human Trafficking Survivor, speaker, consultant and Peer Advocate with Restorations Canada. With over fifteen years of experience in multiple facets of the sex trade, Michelle now uses her story and extensive knowledge to educate and train various sectors on the realities of Human Trafficking. Through her work Michelle has been presenting preventative practices to High Schools, Police Agencies, Service Providers, the Hotel and Hospitality industry, as well as the aviator and travel sector. Michelle has co-written several manuals on how to detect Human Trafficking along with assisting victims in crisis and provides ongoing mentorship. Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Michelle to hear about her journey.

Dylan was born in San Diego, CA, where he spent the majority of his first 30 years; moving to the NEPA region in 2018. A person in long-term recovery, and a member of the LGBTQIA+ community, Dylan understands the importance of social connectedness and community.Initially getting sober in 2011, Dylan had difficulty finding work and took a volunteer position at Being Alive San Diego where he helped those affected by HIV/AIDS gain access to life-sustaining medications and other community support services as a Peer Advocate.Through this experience, the fire to help others was ignited and Dylan was encouraged by his family and friends to go back to school. In 2013, Dylan obtained his GED; it took another 2 years for him to build up the courage to register for classes. In 2015 with the support of his peers in 12-step recovery programs, he started his journey in higher education at Grossmont and Cuyamaca Community Colleges in San Diego, where he eventually made the Dean's List every semester before graduating in May of 2018 with two Associate's Degree in Social Work and Social and Behavioral Sciences.Dylan applied to, and was accepted, to Penn State Wilkes-Barre, after following his now-husband back to his home in Pennsylvania. In 2020, Dylan graduated from Penn State with his Bachelor's Degree in Rehabilitation and Human Services, while maintaining a 4.0 GPA and earning the Luzerne County Council on Adult Higher Education's Outstanding Adult Learner of the Year Award. Dylan is currently a graduate student at Marywood University's School of Social Work.Since arriving in Pennsylvania, Dylan has worked in a variety of positions in the drug and alcohol treatment industry, and for the last three-in-a-half years has been at Brookdale Premier Addiction Recovery in Scotrun, PA working as a Family Counselor. In addition to his work as a Family Counselor, Dylan serves as the Founder and Executive Director of NEPA Pride Coalition, a new non-profit dedicated to enhancing the lives of LGBTQIA+ individuals and families in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre and surrounding areas in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Dylan is lucky enough to use his passion for helping others by giving back to his community. He also understands that LGBTQIA+ individuals experience substance use and other mental health conditions at disproportionately higher rates than the general public and looks forward to the years of services ahead serving his community through education, awareness, and facilitating access to affirming and supportive services.Dylan lives in Larksville with his husband, Gerard.Visit and Like the Coalition FB page!The Eating Disorder Diaries PodcastIf you have an eating disorder, you are not alone. Host Amy Goeckel shares her experience.Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Eye-Opening Moments PodcastEye-Opening Moments are stories of adversity, encounters, and perspectives. They are...Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show Stop by our Apple Podcast and drop a Review! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/allbetter/id1592297425?see-all=reviewsSupport The Showhttps://www.patreon.com/allbetter

Juan Pinon learned about MMI through his sister, who had her own debt payoff journey. Though Juan is highly educated, has a great job, and is viewed as the stable and successful one in his family, his spending was getting out of control. Through his hard work with the debt counselors at MMI, Juan paid off $47,000 and has increased his credit score by 129 points. He believes in the work that MMI is doing so much so that he now serves as a Peer Advocate, helping to educate and encourage new MMI clients in their financial journey and reminding them that they're not alone.

Today BUZZ listener Jessica helps us Kick off the Weekend!Jessica does amazing work in our community as a Peer Advocate focusing on crisis interventionThank you Jessica for all that you do!

As the daughter of immigrants from South Korea, Joanne Lee was not taught about personal finance at home and talking about debt was taboo. When Joanne was overloaded with credit card debt, a Google search for help led her to MMI. While working with the debt relief counselors at MMI, she paid off $25,000 in three years and increased her credit score by 111 points. Now she serves as a Peer Advocate for MMI and shares her story to decrease the stigma around debt. Now free from debt, Joanne is excited to think and dream about her future.

Chad Rollings is a Peer Advocate at Conifer Park in Plattsburgh. NY.

Sarah Williams with Heather Sims, Information and Referral Specialist DRR, and Nicky Watkins, Peer Advocate DRR, on information referral services and independent living skills training. _ Alabama Care is partially supported by ACDD.org. The views expressed are not necessarily the views of this organization.

We all ride bikes for different reasons and are recovering from something. Gina Allgaier shares how losing her son to drug addiction led her to begin Speak Up About Drugs. Also,, Tyler Thompson, Peer Advocate for Speak Up About Drugs, shares his story to sobriety, beginning Ride 4 Recovery, and how biking helps him and many others get their lives back. It's also very cool to see how the community has come together to support Gina and Tyler along the way.

Abigail Johnston is a daughter, mother, wife, and attorney who was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer in June of 2017, close on the heels of a early stage diagnosis in March of 2017. In reality, the breast cancer had already spread to Abigail's bones before she felt the lump in her breast. The first few months after her diagnosis were a whirlwind and full of many profound changes, but Abigail soon found her footing and started her blog "No Half Measures," where she talks about whatever comes to mind, within the lens of her Stage IV diagnosis. Abigail's boys, Liam and Malcolm, who were nearly 2 and nearly 4 at the time of her diagnosis, along with her husband, Elliot, make their own appearances in Abigail's advocacy since it truly is a family affair. In 2017, Abigail discovered that she inherited the ATM mutation and further testing has revealed other somatic mutations; this is now her focus of research and she bugs her doctors regularly with articles and new information. For Abigail, advocacy is a whole life endeavor and she never does anything halfway. Abigail works with Metavivor as a Peer to Peer Advocate, with Living Beyond Breast Cancer as a Hear My Voice Advocate, with After Breast Cancer Diagnosis (ABCD) and she started her own non-profit, Connect IV Legal Services, to recruit attorneys to do pro bono legal work for Stage IV metastatic breast cancer patients. Abigail is an active member of her local support group, Y2B2 which is geared towards younger women with all kinds of cancer and is a co-administrator of a metastatic breast cancer community, Living Metastatic One Day at a Time, where she helps to organize the "Sister Buddy" program so that no member feels isolated or alone. Outside of cancer advocacy, Abigail serves as a room mom for her boys' teachers and is a board member of her local PTA, serving as a Parliamentarian. Just by reading this bio you can see that Abigail is a remarkable woman. When you listen to this podcast you will feel inspired to live a more meaningful life as well as to redefine what success means to you. Contact Abigail Johnston: Her blog: http://www.NoHalfMeasures.blog Fb: https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001483493968 Twitter: @AMJohnston1315 Instagram: @amj1315 LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/abigailjohnston Contact Kendra Rinaldi to be a guest or for coaching: http://www.griefgratitudeandthegrayinbetween.com Music: http://www.rinaldisound.com Logo: http://www.pamelawinningham.com Production: Carlos Andres Londono

Elizabeth Patton, Programs Coordinator at Disability Rights and Resources, and Nicole Watkins, Peer Advocate, on Advocacy Alabama Care is partially supported by ACDD.org. The views expressed are not necessarily the views of this organization.

Conversations With Success Podcast Episode 38 featuring Christina Haynes, Peer Advocate with many agencies across the state of Georgia joins the Conversation to converse on "Healing"! In this inspiring episode Eric and Christina discuss the growing pains of being "uncomfortable" as well as how Christina overcomes the inner critic to coach herself to success! Christina also details how her "Healing" has taken place in an environment of learning to care for others! 

These podcasts, excerpted from a November 2020 webinar, discuss non-opioid pain management strategies for dually eligible individuals, including effective, person-centered pain management options; challenges health plans and clinicians face in providing effective chronic pain management support; and strategies for addressing pain needs during the COVID-19 pandemic.

These podcasts, excerpted from a November 2020 webinar, discusses non-opioid pain management strategies for dually eligible individuals, including effective, person-centered pain management options; challenges health plans and clinicians face in providing effective chronic pain management support; and strategies for addressing pain needs during the COVID-19 pandemic.

On today's episode we flip the script, beginning with a personal story from Pamela Marshall. She tells us how a health crisis lead to finding herself living on Skid Row. A moment of human connection with a worker at the Downtown Women's Center gave her the confidence and information she needed to begin on her road to recovery.  Having been on the receiving end of positive outreach, in turn, she helps a woman she meets at the shelter secure services and housing, and eventually becomes a Peer Advocate at Skid Row Housing Trust.Then, Keris Jän Myrick, Chief of Peer and Allied Health Professions at LA County's Department of Mental Health, joins us to discuss mental health, and challenge our assumptions about the nexus of work required to ameliorate our nation's homelessness crisis.We close with a live poetry reading by Suzette Shaw at the Housing Justice LA Summit earlier this year. 

Thank you for tuning into our 8/7/2020 Get In The Herd After Hours with Alex Bond as we will be talking about the importance of Advocacy work in the Recovery Community. Tyler Thompson is a Peer Advocate for Speakup About Drugs, Based in Arkansas, whose mission is to educate, advocate, support, and prevent overdose and drug use. Their mission is to get to ZERO overdoses. Jeff Breedlove is Chief of Communications and Policy at Georgia Council on Substance Abuse. The Georgia Council on Substance Abuse; mission is to help in Reducing the Impact of Substance Use Disorders Through Education, Advocacy, and Training and supporting The Growth Of Recovery-Focused Services and Support. If you or a Loved One are struggling please connect with us by calling 804-249-1845 or by visiting www.mcshin.org #HealingFamiliesAndSavingLives --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Today, I had the opportunity to sit with retired police officer Aaron Terrill.  Aaron worked as an officer for 18 years and tactical team member for 10 years. He was medically retired after an on duty brain injury. Aaron is now finding his purpose by working as a Peer Advocate with The Wounded Blue. Join us as we discuss on-duty TBI, returning to work and how Aaron's fight has lead to helping other LEO's. Let's drop a review and tell him how much we appreciate him sharing time and space with us! You can reach out to Aaron directly by e-mailing him at aaronterrill@thewoundedblue.org or calling him at 517-819-1970.   Like what you hear? We are honored. Hit that subscribe button and share your thoughts in a review. If you or someone you know may be a fit to be a guest on our show, please reach out to us! Balance. Optimize. Tactics.  Hit that subscribe button so that you don’t miss a day of the added value that I am dedicated to sharing with you weekly.  Let’s Connect!  Facebook  Instagram  Email: ashliewalton555@gmail.com  LinkedIn  Website: www.leowarriors.com Free Training: www.leowarrior.com

Emma Dillard has an open, and blunt conversation about having a dual diagnosis of major depression and alcohol addiction. She opens up about the first time she had a drink; how her dealer signed her into rehab; and much more. 

London has a hugely complex and challenging homelessness issue and the most recent statistics make for sober reading. Key to either improving people's lives and lessening the NHS burden – or, inadvertently continuing the cycle – is how discharge of homeless patients is managed. This episode looks to examine the picture in London, get perspectives from service users, providers and those who want to transform the current system. Joining the discussion is Jemma Gilbert, Director of Transformation for Healthy London Partnership, Olani Nemera, a Peer Advocate for Groundswell, Kendra Schneller, a Nurse Practitioner with the Health Inclusion Team at Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, Adrian McLachlan, GP and Chair of Lambeth CCG and Jane Cook, National Advisor on Homeless Health for the Government's Rough Sleeping Initiative. Thanks to: Groundswell: groundswell.org.uk Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Health Inclusion Team: guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/our-services/community-health-inclusion-team/overview Lambeth CCG: lambethccg.nhs.uk/about-us/

The idea of "peer advocacy" is intimidating to some, and confusing to others. What do we really mean when we talk about peer advocates, and what actually happens inside an appointment with clients at the pregnancy center? We cover all that and more in this episode, an interview with volunteer Stacy Helt.   Links Mentioned: Open House - Register to attend the next Open House and take your first step toward becoming a volunteer. Volunteer Opportunities - Scroll through the current volunteer opportunities to get an idea of GPCC's needs. Time stamps 0:00 - Introducing Stacy Helt, peer advocate at GPCC. 2:10 - What is a Peer Advocate? 3:30 - Stacy describes what an appointment looks like for an advocate 4:55 - What made you want to become a Peer Advocate? 6:53 - What were you most nervous or apprehensive about when you got started? 9:00 - How does someone become a Peer Advocate? 12:50 - What tips or strategies can you give for how to connect with clients in the first moments of an appointment? 15:38 - Why it's important to us as an organization to share the gospel message 16:30 - How do you naturally transition into talking about the gospel with clients? 21:10 - What has been the most challenging part of being a Peer Advocate? 23:00 - What has been the most rewarding part of being a Peer Advocate? Stacy shares a story of when a client chose life. 24:55 - Stacy shares about the moments when a client chooses abortion, and how we can respond to it as Peer Advocates. 29:20 - The do's and don'ts of communicating with clients. 33:55 - How can a Peer Advocate provide tactful and gentle constructive feedback when a client expresses a viewpoint that is incorrect? 39:25 - How do advocates go about following up with clients post-appointment? 43:20 - Stacy shares how advocacy has impacted her personally. 45:34 - What advice would you give to someone who is interested in becoming a Peer Advocate?  

Welcome to Story Slamming Anthropology. This series features both innovative narrative and audio performance drawing on the deep toolkit and methods of anthropology. The goal with Story Slamming Anthropology is to invoke the public facing spirit of Franz Boas, Margaret Mead, Melville Herskovits and many others to speak to 21st century concerns from a comparative perspective in clear language. The narratives here are based on juxtapositions, seemingly counter- or non- intuitive linking’s of subjects, objects, ideas, emotions, practices, or traditions that will intrigue, educate, and delight. In doing so, the goal of these stories is to bring anthropological storytelling to wider audiences and to demonstrate that anthropology matters today more than ever. This narrative, #MeToo: Stories in the Age of Survivorship, is written and performed by Emma Louise Backe. The reckoning of #MeToo has ushered in a renewed politics of storytelling, one whose capillary reach and discursive power requires critical analysis and reflexive consideration of how we listen to and seek out stories. As an ethnographer of sexual violence, who conducted fieldwork on a rape crisis hotline during the Pussygate controversy and has served as a Peer Advocate in George Washington University’s Anthropology Department to respond to incidents of sexual misconduct, I wanted to situate and historicize the #MeToo movement, with the recognition that the academy must similarly grapple with the perils of harassment and assault. This recognition of violence, particularly in light of the suffering slot, must be accompanied by the acknowledgement that the anthropological community contains survivors as well as perpetrators, experiences of trauma as well as complicity and predation. By offering an ethnopoetic approach to #MeToo, I propose opportunities to explore the gaps between lived experience and knowledge production, one whose theoretical intercession recognizes that a disposition towards care must also leave room for hesitation and creative reconfigurations of listening. Emma Louise Backe is a social justice sailor scout working in international development and global health on issues related to gender-based violence and women’s health. She has a Master’s in Medical Anthropology and Certificate in Global Gender Policy from George Washington University. When she’s not advocating on behalf of reproductive justice and consent, she manages The Geek Anthropologist, writes for publications like Lady Science, and tweets from @EmmaLouiseBacke. If you enjoy Story Slamming Anthropology, or are would like to share a narrative of your own, let us know! You can contact Adam and Ryan at thisanthrolife -at – gmail.com or individually at adam -at- thisanthrolife.com or ryan -at- thisanthrolife.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thisanthrolife/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thisanthrolife/support

This summer saw a frenzy of reports into so called ‘African gangs’. Some media outlets and politicians claimed Victoria is facing a ‘crisis’ in youth crime, so much so that it is no longer safe to eat out at restaurants. Fingers were also being pointed at the courts for being too ‘soft’. However, the State government and police rejected claims of a crisis, labelling them 'utter garbage' and unproductive. Members of the African community also warned against the harm this rhetoric causes, including discrimination and vilification.We speak to Sajda Yakub, a Peer Advocate from the Police Accountability Project, to unpack this issue and provide us with some perspective.