Interactive Self-Study Courses

Take one course at a time

Six short courses you can take on your own. All online. Start when you want. Use them to fill in hours you still need, or to renew a certificate you already hold.

These are single courses, not our full certification classes. Looking for those? Peer Recovery Specialist or Community Health Worker.

A year to finish
No set class times. You have one year from the day you sign up. Start and stop as often as you need.
2 to 6 hours each
Most people finish a course in an afternoon or two.
You get a certificate
Finish the course. We keep the record of your hours for you.
Toward Your First Certificate

These count toward CPRS certification

These three are part of the full 52-hour Peer Recovery Specialist class. You can also take them one at a time if you only need a few hours.

ACEs & Trauma-Informed Care
How hard things in childhood affect health later on. How to work with people without hurting them again.
6 hours Ethics
$129
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Compassion Over Judgement
Peer Support & the Harm Reduction Model
How to meet people where they are. How to talk about drug and alcohol use without judging. Covers all four harm reduction hours MABPCB asks for.
4 hours Meets the harm reduction requirement
$79
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Addiction & Recovery 101
The basics of how addiction works. What recovery really looks like. The medicines used to treat it.
4 hours Advocacy & mentoring
$79
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Two more courses make up the rest of the 52 hours. Those are the CCAR Recovery Coach Academy® and Mental Health First Aid. You can only take those inside the full CPRS class.

Renewal & Continuing Education

These count toward renewing your CPRS

Already a certified Peer Recovery Specialist? Take these when you need hours to renew. They also help anyone who works with people, certified or not.

Strategic Sharing: Speaking with Purpose
How to tell your own story so it helps someone else. And how to know what to keep private.
4 hours Mentoring
$79
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Psychological Safety in the Workplace
How to build a team where people can speak up, admit mistakes, and ask for help.
2 hours Recovery & wellness
$39
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Unconscious Bias
We all carry assumptions we did not choose. This course shows how they affect the way we treat people.
2 hours Ethics + mentoring
$39
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Buying for your whole team?
Group rates apply to these courses too, not just our full classes. Need to get several staff through their renewal hours? We can put together a price. We take purchase orders.
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A note for Community Health Workers
These six courses count toward the Peer Recovery Specialist credential. They do not count toward your CHW certificate. CHW is a separate 140-hour class approved by the Maryland Department of Health.
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Not sure which course you need?
Renewing and not sure which hours you are short? Ask us. We will look at what you need and point you to the right courses. You can also check the questions people ask us.
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