Grow Your Skills

  • All training, including CEUs, are free.
  • The Iowa Board of Certification has pre-approved our CEUs for peers. Non-peer professionals: If you need a training description (e.g., learning outcomes) to submit to your boards, email us.
  • The CEs that are offered through CCAR will be provided by CCAR.
  • Trainings are capped at between 25 and 75 participants. Registrations will close when the class is full. 

Trainings

Date(s), Time

Topic

CEU Hours

Eligibility

Registration

1st and 3rd Wednesdays

9:30-10:30 a.m.

Peer Support for Peer Support (PS4PS) Group

Supporting others is a powerful and rewarding experience, and as a peer professional, you deserve support, too! PS4PS offers a space for peer professionals to connect, share ideas, find support, and recharge. 

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  • Peer support specialists, family peer support specialists, recovery coaches
Registration is not required. Click on Join Zoom Meeting
Tuesday, January 13 12:00-1:00 p.m.


Test-Anxiety Reduction Skills Workshop 

Location: Virtual via Zoom

In this virtual workshop, Stephen Cummings describes test-anxiety-reduction strategies that rely on mind-body principles and visual, auditory, and motor imagery. We will practice some of these strategies, and then Steve will teach you several test-taking strategies to prepare for your exam, including how to answer multiple-choice questions strategically using practice test questions. 

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  • Peer support specialists, family peer support specialists, recovery coaches, supervisors
Click HERE to register.

Friday, January 23rd, 

12:00-1:00 p.m. 

 

Peer Advocacy 101 

The Iowa Legislature is going into a new session in 2026.  Peers can provide information to Legislators that affect the work that peers do across the state, how Peer Support Specialists, Family Peer Support Specialists and Recovery Coaches are changing the landscape of peer services in Iowa, and the importance of appropriate reimbursement from Medicaid for peer services. 

In this training, you will learn about the Iowa Legislature and how an idea becomes a bill; how to develop your elevator speech to advocate for an issue important to you; and how to use the legislative map to locate your legislative districts and your representatives at the state and federal levels. 

This is a great training to attend if you plan to visit the State Capitol while the Legislature is in session.

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  • Peer support specialists, family peer support specialists, recovery coaches, supervisors
Click HERE to register. 
Friday, March 27, 8:30 a.m.- 4:00 p.m.

Ethics Training 

Location: Virtual via Zoom

Throughout our careers, we inevitably face ethical dilemmas with employers, coworkers, and those we serve. These situations often leave us feeling uncertain about the best course of action, especially when the choices aren’t clear-cut. That’s where a peer code of ethics is indispensable—to help us navigate these complexities. In this training, you will learn how to identify the standards of conduct within the Code, think through the gray areas, and respond to different types of conflict. 

  • If you are seeking certification - or recertification – through Iowa Board of Certification (IBC), and want to confirm if this training meets the requirements you need, please contact the IBC directly. The IBC website is: https://iowabc.org/
  • Please note: This training does not meet the ethics training requirement for seeking initial certification through the IBC as a Peer Recovery Specialist (PRS) using the Recovery Coach training certification track.
6 hours
  • Peer support specialists, family peer support specialists, recovery coaches
When registration opens, a link to apply will be posted here.