This full-day, interactive training helps peer workers, supervisors, and program leaders navigate the ethical questions that come with holding a professional role and a lived experience at the same time. Participants build a shared language for values, morals, ethics, and boundaries, then apply a four-step decision-making process to eight real scenarios from the field. Offers 6 NAADAC CE credits.

What You’ll Learn

• Distinguish values, morals, ethics, and laws, and how each shapes peer practice
• Identify your own core values and where they align or conflict with your organization
• Apply confidentiality regulations, including 42 CFR Part 2
• Recognize rigid, porous, and healthy boundaries, and the warning signs of boundary drift
• Work through role clarity, dual relationships, and emotional, sexual, and financial exploitation
• Apply a four-step ethical decision-making process to real situations

What You’ll Take Away

Two working tools you keep: the Boundary Management Worksheet for sorting common interactions along a vulnerability continuum, and the Ethical Decision-Making Worksheet for identifying harm, values, standards, and what to document. Participants also leave with a written set of personal core values and a curated resource list covering 42 CFR Part 2, SAMHSA core competencies, and INAPS national guidelines.

Funding for this initiative was made possible (in part) by grant no. 1H79TI088037 from SAMHSA. The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.