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Announcing a New Elective Course
Supporting Financial Wellness:
From Hardship to Hope
The goal of this new Elective course is to provide an overview of what financial wellness is, why it matters to recovery, and ways in which peers are able to support individuals to build financial hope and access available financial wellness services and supports.
Course Objectives
After completing this course, you will be able to:
  • Describe the impact poverty, financial hardship, financial exclusion, and dependency have on recovery.
     
  • Identify the five domains of financial wellness and key factors that contribute to financial wellness.
     
  • Recognize specific strategies peers can use to build financial hope and financial shame resilience.
     
  • Practice how to foster access to financial wellness supports and services that may be available to those in your program or community.  
Course Author
Oscar Jiménez-Solomon is a mental health researcher and advocate. He has dedicated his career to improving the financial wellness of people in behavioral health recovery and their access to culturally competent services through research, program development and policy advocacy. 

He holds a Master of Public Health from Columbia University (2003) and a License in Sociology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (1997).
Since 2013, Oscar has served as Research Scientist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Senior Research Staff Associate in the Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, where he is conducting a study to develop a peer-supported economic empowerment intervention aimed at enhancing employment outcomes, reducing suicide risk, and improving overall psychosocial wellness. 
 
Oscar is also an adjunct Instructor at the Rutgers University Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation, where he teaches at the undergraduate Peer Support Certificate, and he is the Vice-Chair for the National Disability Institute board of directors, a national organization dedicated to improving the financial wellness of all people with disabilities.
This course was developed in collaboration with the New York State Center of Excellence for Cultural Competence, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University Irving Medical Center. 
Accessing the Course

 
To access the course, go to the Academy of Peer Services website and click Log in. This is found in the upper right corner of the screen. If you are not already enrolled, you will be prompted to sign up. (https://www.academyofpeerservices.org)

Once you are enrolled use your dashboard to "Register for course".

If you are new to the Academy of Peer Services, you can find links at the bottom of the site (or use the ones in this message) to view the Fall 2019 Course Catalog, read the Frequently Asked Questions, or explore the instructions and video tutorials in the Online User Guide to learn more. You can also request support from Maryam, our User Support Specialist, by sending email to: academyofpeerservicesnyomh@gmail.com. 
About the Academy of Peer Services

The Academy is a free, online, on-demand training and testing platform funded by the New York State Office of Mental Health and managed by Rutgers University Dept. of Psychiatric Rehabilitation with user support by the New York Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services (NYAPRS). The platform is used in conjunction with the peer specialist certification in New York State. It is open and available to all who have an interest in peer support services. 

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