Training the Trainer is a complete guide to
develop peer counselors in a mental health facility.
- The manual outlines a group approach
to training peer counselors.
- The manual describes the programs Nate
has developed, including the evolution of the programs.
- The manual provides insight to
advocates, administrators, consumers interested in starting their own
program.
- The manual can be used in schools,
with families, and in programs that serve people with other
disabilities.
"Nate Rockitter has elavated the art
and science of mental health counseling by developing a model geared
toward consumer empowerment and skill development. "Training the
Trainer" is a comprehensive introduction to the individual and
group counseling process. More importantly, this model and the peer
counseling model as a whole, successfully empowers mental health
consumers to blend practical counseling skills with their personal
experience in recovery from mental illness. Honoring both consumer skill
and experience is what makes the peer counseling model so
successful."
Julie Holtz MS
Chief Operating Officer BHI
"The knowledge I gain
from Training the Trainer continues to heighten my skills
as a Peer Specialist. This book is supplied with the ingredients I use
to enhance peer recovery and empowerment."
Carolyn Hall
Peer Specialist
"That's a great book. Even my mom
liked it. To get my mom to look at anything educational is
amazing."
Pam Fisk
Peer Specialist
"Nate Rockitter is both a visionary
and a realist. He has taken the idea of peer support in a mental health
care setting and committed his time and passion to making it work, step
by incremental step. "Training the Trainer" is solidly based
in the experiences of those who have actually done it from the ground up
and learned from doing. I highly recommend this text to anyone who has
an interest in exploring this type of program."
LeeAnne Merrifield
Director of Consumers Affairs BHI
"I share the vision that people with
disabilities, older adults, and Veterans achieve maximum personal
independence. In my experience Nate's program is a prime example of the
implementation of that vision."
Bruce Crain
Accredited Veterans Advocate
