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Peer support and education

Peer support, learning, and connection

Peer support values lived experience, mutual respect, self-direction, and practical connection. It can help people explore their own recovery goals, strengthen community ties, and identify resources.

Building our peer approach

Restoring Hope is developing its peer workforce and education approach using the Wisconsin Department of Health Services Peer Services Employer Toolkit and current research. Our planning emphasizes clear roles, thoughtful recruitment and orientation, ongoing learning, and supportive supervision.

Peer work has its own purpose and boundaries. It does not provide clinical diagnosis, psychotherapy, treatment direction, or medication management. People should receive clear information about the role of the person supporting them.

Relational Recovery Peer education

The Relational Recovery Peer pathway is being developed to support practical learning in peer relationships, ethics, group and individual support, resource navigation, and supervised practice.

Secular and Scripture-integrated learning options are identified clearly so participants can understand the content and choose appropriately. Completing RHM or RHSBC coursework does not, by itself, confer Wisconsin Certified Peer Specialist or Certified Parent Peer Specialist certification, professional licensure, employment, or authority to bill for services. State certification follows its own requirements.

Contact us for confirmed information about upcoming learning opportunities, schedules, eligibility, and available places.

What guides our planning

  • Respect for each person's goals, choices, and lived experience.
  • Clear boundaries between peer support, clinical services, housing operations, and education.
  • Preparation, orientation, continuing development, and access to supervision.
  • Privacy-conscious communication and documentation.
  • Evaluation that considers experience, access, engagement, and progress without promising a particular outcome.

Research provides useful guidance while showing that results vary by program, population, and setting. We use that evidence to improve planning; it does not establish outcomes for a new local program.

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Care That Is Measured — Because People Are What Matter

Restoring Hope Ministries tracks the well-being of every participant in our clinical and faith-based services using empirically validated screeners, clinical interviews, behavioral analysis, and self-report — so we can honestly see whether the people we serve are getting better.

This rigor reflects the training of our founder, Dr. Jeffrey Gross, who earned an M.S. in Clinical Psychology from the Wisconsin School of Professional Psychology and is continuing his Psy.D. studies in Clinical Psychology, with completion anticipated in 2028. His Th.D. in Theology and Ph.D. in Christian Counseling complement that clinical education with theological preparation for Christ-centered soul care.

At Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin, he served as a Student Psychologist and later Chief Student Psychologist, supporting veterans and first responders with traumatic brain injuries through the BRAVE program. His work included assessment, individualized treatment planning, multidisciplinary rehabilitation, psychoeducational and process-oriented groups, and peer supervision. His experience also includes supervised psychological testing of clergy at Milwaukee Psychotherapy Collaborative, recovery-focused group development at The Manor by Windrose, and case management and peer-support supervision at Biehl Bridges to Recovery.

Continuing education in assessment, trauma, neurobehavioral conditions, supervision, ethics, and risk management further informs this approach. Together, these experiences help shape RHM’s commitment to careful assessment, responsible documentation, collaborative care, and attention to each person’s spiritual, relational, emotional, and practical needs. His clinical psychology doctorate remains in progress; this background does not replace the qualifications or licensure required for regulated clinical services.

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