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Amanda and Brent discuss the importance of knowing recovery resources to help guide your recovery. Check out our website for resource lists and a map to peer support services (mtpeernetwork.org).

Recovery Resources

Bill and Amanda chat about Mental Health Month, labeling, radical acceptance, and their own experiences in the mental health world. You can find out more about it at 
https://www.nami.org/Get-Involved/Awareness-Events/Mental-Health-Awareness-Month
https://www.mhanational.org/mental-health-month
You can also find information about Children's Mental Health Week at https://www.ffcmh.org/awarenessweek.

Mental Health Month 2021

Bill and Brent chat about stigma surrounding behavioral health. Mental Health Month is a great time to start a conversation about mental health and talking about it more reduces stigma.

Mental Health Month: Fighting Stigma

Jim and Amanda share their experiences using technology to maintain their recovery. Mobile apps, podcasts, videos, and websites can all help you stay on your recovery journey. Some of the apps mentioned in this podcast are:

What's Up? A Mental Health App 
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jacksontempra.apps.whatsup&hl=en 
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/whats-up-a-mental-health-app/id968251160

Neurocycle 
https://neurocycle.app/ 

Aura 
https://www.aurahealth.io/ 

PTSD Coach
https://mobile.va.gov/app/ptsd-coach
Primed Mind: Mindset Coaching app
https://primedmind.com/

You can find more on our website at mtpeernetwork.org/mobile-apps

Technology in Recovery

Jim and Bill talk about how they were first introduced to peer support and the journey that led them to become peer supporters.

Getting Involved in Peer Support

Misti Johnston, Drop in Center Director at the Butte, MT Rescue Mission sits down with Jim to discuss recovery and more.

Misti Johnston

Erin Olson, CBHPSS at St. Peter's in Helena, MT joins Jim for a discussion of leadership and recovery month activities. He is also the president of NAMI Helena, Vice chair of Lewis and Clark County Local Advisory Council, NAMI Montana Board Member, and CIT trainer.

Erin Olson

Join Executive Director Jim Hajny as he welcomes a Lucie Bruno. Lucie is the director of the Strength Found program, which provides crucial support to adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse (CSA). She is also a peer mentor for the Ethical Peer Support (EPS) training, operating out of Ottawa, Canada.

In this essential discussion, Jim and Lucie address why the topic of CSA remains often "taboo," despite its prevalence and widespread impact on individuals' lifetimes, often leading to mental health issues, substance use, and failed relationships. Lucie shares her passion for peer support and details the successful, peer-led Strength Found program.

Lucie Bruno - Strength Found Program

Host and executive director, Jim Hajny, speaks with special guest Heidi, a peer supporter, wife, daughter, sister, stepmom, friend, and mother to three girls. Having met Jim through peer support training, Heidi joins the podcast to share her courageous story of mental health recovery.

Heidi Waltenbaugh

Jim and Andi discuss the Gold Sauce at the Golden Arches and the Gold Standard mentioned int he new SAMHSA Priorities.

Gold Sauce Edition

Montana’s Peer Network is a statewide peer run 501c3 non-profit recovery organization with a mission to lead the development of the peer support workforce and create pathways for wellness and recovery in communities throughout Montana.  We are a network of 1800+ individuals across Montana in recovery from mental health, substance abuse and or addiction struggles. We provide information, education, training, peer support and resources across the state using our own “lived experience” in long term recovery. This is the recovery movement. A national shift from a maintenance model of behavioral health to a recovery model, where every individual has access to care, choices, and the message that “recovery is possible.

Technology in Recovery

Recovery Talks