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• Excelsior Springs JCC—TEAP Peer Monitoring Program Region 5 Chicago

Excelsior Springs TEAP Peer Monitoring Program

Purpose and Scope of Practice: The Trainee Employee Assistance Program (TEAP) Peer Mentoring Program is to further assist TEAP students in their recovery process. It maintains the student’s involvement in the TEAP throughout their Job Corps stay. The TEAP Student Mentoring Program serves as relapse prevention and positive student involvement.

Steps Required to Implement Practice: After a student successfully completes the 45-day intervention period and is released from the traditional TEAP, they are offered further assistance by entering the TEAP Peer Mentoring Program. In this program, the prospective student completes a 4-week training on peer mentoring using, “The Peer Counseling Training Course”, by Maggie Phillips, revised and expanded by Joan Sturkie. Each mentor must attend weekly mentor sessions, along with one weekly TEAP session per month. Mentors are given the opportunity to be a speaker and/or group leader at one TEAP session. Along with these requirements, each TEAP student mentor must sign a code of ethics. Each mentor is placed on an individualized and custom relapse prevention treatment plan that is provided through the TheraScripe 4.0 software program.

Students who do not wish to be mentors are placed solely on the TheraScribe relapse prevention plan, if they desire. If a student is not positive on entry, is not experiencing any relapse issues, and wishes to become a TEAP student mentor, the student is placed in the 4-week training only.

Before entering the career transition period portion of the program, each student attends a session and watches a video “Getting High: Not in the Job Description.” Each student also receives a folder of information on various topics such as stress, tobacco use, coping with change, etc. This ensures that each student leaves the program with helpful information regarding an employee assistance program.

Resources Required to Implement Practice:

• The Peer Mentoring Training Course, by Maggie Phillips, Reprint Department, Resource Publications, Inc., 160 E. Virginia St. # 290, San Jose, California 95112
• Getting High: Not in the Job Description, Meridian Education Corporation, 1-800-727-5507
• TheraScribe 4.0, Wiley Productions

Evidence of Success: Students enjoy the mentors and have found it to be a huge success for new and old students at the center. Both students and staff find this Student Mentoring Program to be a beneficial part of the program. The program promotes teamwork and leadership skills as well.

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