Room: Emerald Room

Presented by: Braunwynn Franklin – CPSS

Peer support is evidence-based, yet peers are often asked to justify their work using clinical frameworks that do not fit their role. This introductory, experiential session reframes evidence-based practice through a peer lens, centering lived experience, practice-based evidence, and community outcomes rather than medicalized models of care. Designed for peers, this training explores core evidence-based practices that align with peer roles and responsibilities, including trauma-informed peer support, peer-adapted motivational interviewing, recovery capital, WRAP-informed support, and harm minimization. Emphasis is placed on role clarity, documentation language, and boundary-setting as tools to protect peer labor, prevent role drift, and strengthen the integrity of peer support within complex systems.