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53 <br /> Objectives. By the end of the 2024 fiscal year,TSRC will have: <br /> 1. Mentoring. <br /> By the end of the XX fiscal year,we will have: <br /> A. Populated Orange and Durham counties with 24 state Certified Peer Support Specialists <br /> (12/year) for whom TSRC will have paid training and certification fees and enlisted them into a <br /> reentry/SUD community of support. <br /> B. Advanced the peer support competencies of 24 TSRC CPSSs (12/year)with on-the-job training <br /> including co-facilitating peer support groups, co-mentoring, and providing opportunities to <br /> participate in community engagement. We will team new certified CPSSs with experienced <br /> mentors for six months of mentoring-of-mentors. <br /> C. Engaged 30 participants in one-on-one peer support mentoring (12 participants/yr1 and 18 for <br /> yr2 for 26 weeks/participant; 3 -6 hours/week (this will include two mentoring sessions per <br /> week, and when possible and appropriate, accompany participants in transition training <br /> sessions. <br /> D. TSRC staff will have developed and piloted a Reentry Peer Support Specialist (ReCPSS) curriculum <br /> and submitted it to the NC governing body at the UNC School of Social Work for accreditation. <br /> 2. Reentry Acclimation Course. <br /> By the end of the 2024 fiscal year,TSRC will have: <br /> A. Completed the upgrade of and piloted all 22training modules. <br /> B. Conducted "train-the-trainer" sessions led by two Master Peer Support Workshop Leaders to <br /> prepare candidates (3/year)to lead the Reentry Acclimation Course.These Leaders will have <br /> also supervised these candidates in "student teaching"to fully prepare them, as pairs,to <br /> independently lead the Course. <br /> C. Engaged 30 TSRC participants (e.g.,three classes of 10) in 22 structured workshops (two hours <br /> each) covering key community acclimation principles/topics.A Curriculum Team, composed of <br /> both those with lived experience of successful reentry and Doctor of Public Health, developed <br /> the course materials and methods and will use proven methods to continuously improve. <br /> Collaborative Strengths. Successful recovery from prison is a heroic act. Prison is an ongoing ritual of <br /> dehumanization that takes a toll day after day, month after month, and year after year. For many, it is <br /> decade after decade.Accordingly, a major function of TSRC is to support reentrants at chipping away at <br /> the psycho-social, cultural, and economic aspects of prison life to reinvigorate returnees' sense of <br /> identity and value as self-regulating, community-engaged, empowered, and decision-making individuals. <br /> Essential to these processes of"re-humanization" and reintegration are the knowledge, skills, and <br /> capacities of those who have already successfully made the re-entry journey and are poised to "give <br /> back"They are our collaborative's central source of power. Prolonged and intense direct service in these <br /> areas is designed to supplement and leverage the effects of practitioner-provided SLID services. <br /> Each of the five TSRC collaborating organizations infuses their work with the leadership of those with the <br /> lived experiences of SUDS, incarceration, and reentry. In essence, each of these successful returnees that <br /> serve as TSRC trainers and/or mentors and/or reentry house staff exemplify the inherent strength <br /> possessed by reentrants who populate our programs.The para-professional status attained by leaders <br /> 7 <br />