This course will support your team to develop effective Peer-to-Peer responses. With learning pathways tailored for peer workers, supervisors and departmental and organisational leaders.

You’ll learn with TACSI’s Chris Vanstone, Barbara Binns, Danielle Abbott, Martin Ford and Aunty Vickey Charles, all experienced practitioners in peer-to-peer.

Together they’ll help you get clear on what peer-to-peer work is, why it works, and the roles, practices and routines that can support delivery. 

Our facilitators will work with you to tailor the learning experience to your context and needs.

Your facilitators

Danielle Abbott

Peer Practices Lead, TACSI

A champion and advocate for the voice of the people, Danielle’s spent the last 20 years working on the ground with youth, families and in community development. For the last decade she’s worked at TACSI on designing, delivering and implementing peer-to-peer solutions, including Family by Family in Australia and the UK.

Martin Ford

Senior Social Innovator, TACSI

Martin brings energy, hope and motivation to the people and teams he works with and seeks to unify others in a common passion and purpose to achieve long term outcomes. Martin spent fifteen years helping purpose-led organisations achieve their ambitions through strategic brand, web and communication design - supporting organisations to develop clearer articulations of purpose, process and frameworks for better design, collaboration and decision-making. Martin's work at TACSI includes research and co-design projects in the education and mental health sectors working alongside people with lived experience to elevate their voices in services and systems.

Barbara Binns

Senior Social Innovator, TACSI

Quietly persistent with an empathetic approach, Barbara strives to see the world through other people’s eyes. For the last four years, her focus has been supporting the spread and implementation of ‘Weavers’, a peer-to-peer support model that helps carers manage the ongoing challenges of caring, reducing the stress of caring and increasing wellbeing.

What learners will experience

  • TACSI practitioners, peers, peer mentors/workers, supervisors and organisational leaders sharing their insights into peer-to-peer practices

  • Case studies from TACSI’s peer-to-peer work over the last decade and other international models

  • Ten audio episodes that will introduce topics with stories, conversations and frameworks

  • Tools and frameworks you can use with your team to shape peer-to-peer activity

  • An App, website and downloadable resources

  • Ongoing access to all the resources

Nine things learners will learn

  • What is peer-to-peer support

  • The principles and mindsets that support peer to peer work

  • The different forms peer-to-peer support can take

  • The roles that make peer-to-peer work including: peers, peer mentor/workers, coach/supervisors and organisational leaders

  • Considerations for engaging First Nations people in peer-to-peer activities

  • Key practices including: motivational goal setting, narrative practices, trauma informed practice and cultural responsiveness

  • How to manage risk in peer-to-peer models

  • What needs to be designed in a peer-to-peer model

  • How to take a co-design approach to peer-to-peer

Included in a typical learning package

  • Scoping conversations to understand your context

  • Tailoring the learning experience to fit your needs and context

  • Differentiated learning pathways for peer workers, supervisors and leaders

  • Midpoint and endpoint evaluation of the course from participants

  • Lifelong access to resources and guidance via the TACSI Learning Hub including via the Learning Hub smart phone app

Course curriculum

  1. Welcome to the Peer-to-Peer Learning Series

  2. Peer-to-Peer Support

  3. The Peer Worker Role

  4. The Supervisor Role

  5. The Peer Experience

  6. Practices for Peer-to-Peer

About this course

  • Audio episodes
  • Live sessions
  • Tools to use in your work

FAQs

  • Who can I talk to about any other questions?

    You can speak with our Learning Coordinator, via email ([email protected]) or the contact form below.