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Healing Wounds Through Peer Support
September is National Recovery Month, and we are bringing you another limited-edition month-long podcast series with our Strategic Alliance Partner, UPMC Health Plan. In this third episode, we speak with Kim MacDonald-Wilson, ScD, CPRP, and Tracy Carney, CPS, CPRP.
To help celebrate and recognize National Recovery Month, we are bringing you another limited-edition month-long podcast series with our Strategic Alliance Partner, UPMC Health Plan. Welcome to our third episode and our discussion with Kim MacDonald-Wilson, ScD, CPRP, senior program director, Recovery and Wellness Transformation, and Tracy Carney, CPS, CPRP, senior recovery and resiliency specialist, both at Community Care Behavioral Health Organization, part of the UPMC Insurance Services Division.
There are many paths to recovery, and peer support is an integral component for everyone involved in this process, for both mental health and substance use disorders. In our conversation, we delve into some of the challenges encountered during the lifelong process of recovery, address the vital importance of involving individuals in their recovery plans vs compelling their recovery to fit into a well-defined box, and share success stories that illustrate the critical importance of peer support to this community.
We hope you learn something new from this series, and we look forward to bringing you future episodes. Please tune in each Monday in September for a new episode drop.
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