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PAVE Pathways: Continuing Education Kits, Built by People Who Lived It

The PAVE Pathways catalog spans 225 continuing education topics across nine practice domains. Each kit is a self-contained training package with a facilitator guide, participant workbook, slide deck, and post-test, written for peer specialists and the behavioral health and public health teams that supervise them. Kits are designed to be delivered as-is or adapted to an organization's existing training calendar and documentation requirements.

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LifeSync and Purpose

What Is LifeSync?

Finding the Place Where Who You Are Meets How You Live

This complete, facilitator-ready training kit introduces PAVE's purpose-alignment framework, showing how to find harmony between who a person is, what they love, and how they live day to day. It adapts the Ikigai model for peer-led growth rather than corporate goal setting, and frames purpose as an ongoing practice of alignment across personal values, professional skills, and community impact. Grounded in positive psychology, purpose-in-life research, and longevity studies. Written in plain, warm language for adult learners, including people in recovery and people returning from incarceration who are now doing this work.

Code:
LSP-5.1
Format:
2-hour continuing education session
$397View kit
Addiction

The Role of Trauma in Addiction

Understanding Survival, Building Trauma-Informed Support

Most people who struggle with substances are carrying pain that started long before the first use. This complete, facilitator-ready training kit helps frontline staff, peer leaders, and justice-impacted program teams understand how trauma and chronic stress sensitize the brain's threat-detection systems, why substance use so often works as an adaptive way to regulate overwhelming emotional pain, and how to build support around the three core trauma-informed principles of safety, choice, and empowerment. Grounded in SAMHSA, NIDA, the CDC-Kaiser ACE Study, and the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. Written in plain, warm language for adult learners, including people in active recovery and people returning from incarceration.

Code:
ADD-1.8
Format:
2-hour continuing education session
$397View kit
Recovery

Overcoming Shame and Guilt

Releasing Shame, Restoring Dignity

Shame is one of the strongest forces keeping people stuck in substance use cycles, and it is one of the least directly addressed in most programs. This complete, facilitator-ready training kit helps peer specialists, counselors, and reentry staff teach the difference between "I did something bad" and "I am bad," show how shame drives secrecy, isolation, and return to use, and practice cognitive tools and self-forgiveness steps that disarm self-stigma. Grounded in SAMHSA, NIDA, CCAR, and the research base on shame, guilt, and stigma in recovery. Written in plain, warm language for adult learners, including people in active recovery and people returning from incarceration.

Code:
REC-2.17
Format:
2-hour continuing education session
$397View kit
Wellness and Mental Health

Compassion Fatigue and Recovery

Caring for the People Who Do the Caring

The people doing the supporting carry a load nobody talks about. This complete, facilitator-ready training kit helps peer specialists, recovery coaches, caregivers, and frontline staff recognize the early warning signs of compassion fatigue, tell the difference between healthy empathy and absorbing other people's pain, and build steady practices for peer debriefing, reflection, and firm emotional boundaries. Grounded in SAMHSA, NIDA, CCAR, and the research base on secondary traumatic stress and burnout. Written in plain, warm language for adult learners, including people in recovery and people returning from incarceration who are now doing this work.

Code:
WMH-4.21
Format:
2-hour continuing education session
$397View kit
CommunityPulse and Engagement

Building Trust First: Community Engagement for Programs People Actually Show Up To

Why Trust Comes Before Outreach, and How to Earn It

This complete, facilitator-ready training kit teaches outreach and engagement staff how to build the kind of trust that turns a flyer into a full room, especially with communities that have been let down by outside organizations before. It treats trust as something earned through consistency and follow-through, not something assumed because an organization means well, and it gives practical, low-cost ways to meet people where they are. Built on community engagement and community-based participatory research guidance, and written in plain, warm language for adult learners, including peer specialists, outreach workers, and people in recovery or returning from incarceration who are now doing this work.

Code:
CPE-7.1
Format:
2-hour continuing education session
$397View kit
GrantCraft and Resource Development

Finding and Winning Small Grants: Resource Development for Grassroots Programs

A Peer-Led Approach to Funding Real Community Work

This complete, facilitator-ready training kit gives peer-led organizations without a dedicated development team a clear, step-by-step process for finding, applying for, and managing small grants that fund real community work. It treats grant writing as a learnable skill rather than a mystery reserved for people with advanced degrees, and it is honest about the paperwork and follow-through required after the money arrives. Built on established funder guidance and nonprofit capacity-building research, and written in plain, warm language for adult learners, including peer specialists, grassroots organizers, and people in recovery or returning from incarceration who are now running or supporting programs.

Code:
GCR-6.1
Format:
2-hour continuing education session
$397View kit
LeadForward and Mentorship

From Peer to Leader: Growing Into Leadership Without Losing Your Roots

Mentorship Skills for Peer Specialists Stepping Into Their First Leadership Role

This complete, facilitator-ready training kit supports peer specialists and frontline staff who are stepping into supervisory or mentorship roles for the first time, often without any formal management training. It treats the shift from being a peer among peers to holding a leadership role as an identity change that deserves real preparation, not just a new title, and it is honest that carrying responsibility for others can put a leader's own recovery and wellbeing at risk if they do not protect it. Built on established peer supervision, mentorship, and workforce development guidance, and written in warm, plain language for adult learners, including people in recovery or returning from incarceration who are now stepping into these roles.

Code:
LFM-9.1
Format:
2-hour continuing education session
$397View kit
ImpactTrack and Evaluation

Measuring What Matters: Simple Evaluation for Programs That Don't Have a Data Team

Tracking Outcomes and Telling Your Program's Real Story Without a Statistics Degree

This complete, facilitator-ready training kit gives frontline staff and program leads a plain-language way to track outcomes and tell their program's real story, without needing a statistics background or expensive software. It draws a clear line between counting activity and measuring impact, and it treats data collection as a habit the team can actually sustain, not a burden bolted on to satisfy a funder. Built on established nonprofit evaluation and outcomes measurement guidance, and written in warm, plain language for adult learners, including peer specialists, program coordinators, and people in recovery or returning from incarceration who are now running or supporting programs.

Code:
ITE-8.1
Format:
2-hour continuing education session
$397View kit
HIV and Chronic Illness

HIV and Aging

Honoring Survivors, Building Whole-Person Wellness

More than half of people living with diagnosed HIV in the United States are now age 50 or older. This complete, facilitator-ready training kit helps frontline staff and peer leaders recognize the medical, cognitive, and emotional realities of aging with HIV, including AIDS Survivor Syndrome, and apply PAVE's R.A.C.E. framework and the MIPA principle to build programs that honor long-term survivors as experts, not afterthoughts. Grounded in HIV.gov, NIH HIVinfo, the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program, and the San Francisco AIDS Foundation.

Code:
HIV-3.8
Format:
2-hour continuing education session
$397View kit

Coming next

One representative topic from each of the nine practice domains, in development now. These previews show the shape of the kits being built next.

AddictionComing Soon

Understanding Cravings

A practical look at how cravings function in the brain and body, and how to navigate them without automatic reaction.

ADD-1.2 · In development

HIV and Chronic IllnessComing Soon

Living Well With HIV

Shifts focus from medical management to designing a vibrant, joyful life centered on wellness, hope, and personal growth.

HIV-3.23 · In development

See all available kits

Pick a practice domain to see the 25 topics inside it, each with its learning objective and core focus areas.