We had a meeting for our Peer Success Group on Sunday at 6:15 pm. All the leaders from each unit came together at the Recreation Department and we discussed orders of business for our Peer Group. It is great that we hold these meetings to share information and touch base with each unit and make sure we are all working toward the same common goals. Right now, we are in the process of getting all Team mentors and leaders trained in the 8 Dimensions of Wellness wheel. Each mentor will team up and work together and focus on a particular Dimension. For Example, one will focus on Spiritual another on Occupational and so forth. Each Mentor will come up with an approximately 20 minute workshop to train mentors on the particular subject. We will go around the room and get training on each spoke of the wheel. This way each mentor is able to better understand each spoke of the wheel and be equiped to better help our peers with particular situations and problems that may arise. These women are so knowledgeable and I am excited for our upcoming training. As Peer Success Leader for Unit B3 I am excited to learn from all the women in all the units about ideas to better help other people understand these dimensions and work toward good re-entry goals. Staff will be present to help train us on many things that involve Psychology and Re-entry. Psychology staff at our last meeting expressed how excited they were about this program also. It helps relieve some of their workload. They can’t be everywhere at once. They are very supportive of it and that makes me even more excited that we have their support. We are in the first stages of this Peer Success Program but I am very hopefully it will bring much needed positivity to this compound. It is is already giving me great joy to know that I am working toward positive things and I am able to help others in the process.
