How to Become a Facilitator

How to Become an RRPS Facilitator

To become an RRPS Facilitator, you must first, participate in an RRPS group. You cannot become a Facilitator for each of the different groups by only participating in one type of group. In order to qualify as a Facilitator of a specific group, a potential Facilitator has to participate in that specific group.

There are three different programs or groups. Radical Recovery Peer Support (RRPS), RRPS-University, and RRPS-Liberation. RRPS is for people who are experiencing general distress. RRPS-University is for people experiencing distress but who are either attempting a form of education beyond k-12, or who are thinking about doing so. RRPS-Liberation is for people with a criminal history that includes Driving Under the Influence.

For RRPS Liberation, you must have both a substance use history and a criminal record to be able to be an RRPS Liberation facilitator. However, if you only have one of those requirements met, you can take an additional training to round out your knowledge and be able to facilitate this group. The program you will have to take is the RRPS Recovery & Mentorship training.

For RRPS-University, a Facilitator must show proof that they have at least 25 credits of college experience, or that they have received a certification in a particular skill and have worked in that field for 3 years.

For the RRPS program specifically, other than RRPS-University or RRPS-Liberation, there are no background requirements to become a Facilitator.

*After personally participating in a group, you will complete three online courses, one of which is self study and a test, and two which are videos you can watch with an accompanying test. The self study course is all about learning the core competencies of Peer Support; the videos are about learning basic facilitation skills and person first language. These help us create and engaging and safe space for people to share there experiences and bond as a social group.

After completing the online course work, the Facilitation training will begin. Facilitation training involves working with an Advanced Level Co-Facilitator to present a group to 6 people (no more than 6). They will do this on a recorded Zoom session so the recording can be viewed to make sure the presentation process went smoothly.

For more information on how to divide the participation during a regular (non-training group) consult the text on page two of the Facilitator handbook. Or check out our blog titled “Participation Requirements” at www.communitypeerservices.com/blog This blog also states the amount of completion of the workbook needed by each person attempting to become a Facilitator.

During training, the potential Facilitator is not required to examine participants workbooks for completeness, this will be for their Advanced Level Co-facilitator to complete.

A potential Facilitator may need to find participants for their training group. We cannot guarantee that we will have willing participants. We suggest trying to network with others in the mental health recovery, substance use recovery, or criminal Reentry fields such as Peer Supporters, or Forensic Peer Supporters via your social media.

Also, providing groups without our permission (without being a Facilitator) violates copyright law.