RRPS (Recovery & Mentorship)

Dakota FIsher
Nov 10, 2025
4 min read

Updated: Dec 28, 2025

Announcing: the release of our Peer support training model based on the Radical Recovery Peer Support series. RRPS Recovery and Mentorship is a program that goes beyond just teaching how to use lived experience to support others.

Yes, we show students how to capitalize on lived experience, but what do you do when your experience is based in mental health and Peers walk in having developed a substance use challenge, and what do you do when your substance recovery peers develop acute mental health challenges or crises?

Our program prepares you for that! It also talks about how to support people through an interaction with the legal system and possible charges, conviction, and jail time. Obviously this holds high value compared to typical programs where they mostly only discuss one type of challenge.

Our Program is Versatile

While our program is approved in both Florida and Nevada with slight differences in structure, it is also made to be versatile. It can be taken in bits and pieces and non consecutively so anyone can take the courses they need when they need them, even as continued education in the states previously mentioned, as well as in Pennsylvania and Texas!

If Taken as Continued Education:

You can take classes in bits and pieces at your own pace (self-paced) or you could take them live (generally for a greater amount of educational hours and credit than when taken self-paced) one at a time. You could also enroll in all of them as a package in many cases and then take them when your schedule permits.

If Taken for Initial Certification:

You can take the full 30 hour self paced course - the base requirement for Florida initial "CRPS" certification. You would also need to take a Whole Health class for the "core" requirement (alongside the 30 hr self-paced courses), and another Whole Health class of your choice for the extra requirement in Florida of Whole Health education.

or:
You could take all the self paced programs, minus the self paced ethics content (leaving you with 24 hours of self paced content) and take a live 2 day ethics class, and a Whole Health class instead to meet requirement for Nevada initial certification as a Peer support (PRSS).

Content Structure

If you took all classes live, which we will begin to offer sometime around may of 2026,

you could take seminar 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, and the 8.5 hour self paced course to meet the requirements for Florida and Nevada. In Florida though you would need to do a Whole Health Program in addition (an extra requirement in Florida), and we offer 4 of those!

(to find out more about what the Whole Health programs are about, Click Here)

The 8.5 hour self paced class focuses on a blend of crises support theory, cultural considerations, facilitation, person centered language, and core competencies.

The full self paced is 30 hours with the other Seminars mentioned above being about 3 to 6 hours each.

Seminar 1 is about peer support history and the concept of mentorship,
Seminar 2 is information about mental health and substance use, and also about supportive strategies for both,
Seminar 3 is about forensic or criminal background support,
Seminar 6 is ethics
Seminar 7 is - Additional Topics in Peer Support

Benefits of RRPS (Recovery & Mentorship)

There is an awesome benefit that comes with completing the Recovery and Mentorship series of courses!

Completion of all of the coursework whether it be in self-paced or live instruction, or a combination of such will allow you to use the designation "RRPS Mentor!"

This designation, which is growing in its ability to make your resume extra competitive, and shows your dedication to supportive services and a level of training above typical standards, will be a wonderful addition to your educational background!

Other Requirements to Become an RRPS Mentor:

RRPS Mentors must complete all the classes from RRPS (Recovery & Mentorship)

and

must Complete 240 hours of one on one support with people seeking support/mentorship at our organization. This would be completed in 10 hours or less per week, completed over a minimum of 6 months, with 10 hours being the maximum service time during the period which would cause it to take 6 months in order to reach 240 hours of service.

and

For every 8 hours of service provided, students receive 1 hour of mandatory supervision. In a 10 hour per week/40 hour per month cycle this would be 5 hours of supervision per month.

A $200 per month stipend is awarded for those who complete the maximum requirements. The stipend would be reduced if less than 10 hours per week was completed. It decreases at a rate of $5 per hour.

Our Ethics Class

When delivered in live format, our Ethics class (Seminar 6) is an approved as continued education for NAADAC and is able to be submitted to the NCC AP for the NCPRSS national Peer credential.

Seminar 6

has been approved by Community and Peer Services, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC provider #343538. Community and Peer Services is responsible for all aspects of the programming.