Speaker: Maggie Taylor
Self-advocacy is vital to this relatively new field; providers within the clinical setting may struggle to incorporate peers in a meaningful way. It is the responsibility of the RSS to educate and raise awareness, as to not only the importance of RSS’s but to what is/ not acceptable expectations.
Recover Support Specialist are unique and effective contributors to traditional services, but only when they are able to share their wisdom and expertise freely… the goal of this webinar is to provide RSS’s with real life examples, and advice to aide them in initiating constructive conversations that will allow them to establish trust and understanding with co-workers and staff within the working environment.
Maggie Taylor
Maggie Taylor is a Recovery Support Specialist, who has a Bachelor’s in Human Services with a minor in Psychology. She is the Advocacy and Education Program Manager, at Advocacy Unlimited, and has formerly served in the field as a Community Bridger. Maggie feels that it was an act of faith that brought her to the peer movement; she was working as a Nutrition Educator when she received an email with an invitation to a CT Hearing Voices Network training. At that training Maggie met peers from Focus on Recovery, and instantly knew that she had found “her tribe” and started working there shortly after. “I could not imagine working with people in any other capacity outside of the peer role; my hope is that I am able to combine both, my education and lived experience to communicate issues that broaden the perspectives of both, people living with diagnoses, and their communities.