From Peer to Leader: Growing Into Leadership Without Losing Your Roots
Mentorship Skills for Peer Specialists Stepping Into Their First Leadership Role
Prepare peer specialists and frontline staff for their first supervisory or mentorship role, so they can hold authority without losing the trust and the recovery that got them there.
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.
- Who it is for
- Peer specialists and frontline staff new to supervising or mentoring others, team leads, program coordinators, and people in recovery or returning from incarceration who are now stepping into leadership roles
- Group size
- 8 to 30 participants, breakout groups of 4 to 6
Identity, not title
a full segment on the shift from being a peer among peers to holding authority, including the friendships that change and the grief that usually goes unnamed in supervisor training
Source: SAMHSA peer support supervision guidance
3 core skills
active listening, setting expectations before correcting, and giving feedback that names behavior, effect, and ask, each practiced in pairs during the session rather than only described
Source: CCAR and national peer leadership core competencies
Your recovery first
a closing segment and written plan on protecting the leader's own recovery and wellbeing, with early warning signs, outside support, and honest limits on what the role gets to spend
Source: PAVE LeadForward facilitator curriculum
What's in the kit
Every PAVE Pathways kit ships with the same ten components.
- 1.Training Blueprint and 2-Hour Flow Outline
- 2.10-Question Pre-Knowledge Survey
- 3.28-Slide Core Presentation Deck
- 4.Slide-by-Slide Presenter Notes with full scripts, metaphors, and analogies
- 5.Participant Notes Version (3 slides per page with lined note space, PDF)
- 6.Two Participant Handouts: the My Leadership Shift worksheet and a Feedback That Lands checklist
- 7.Group Breakout Session Kit (45 minutes, with group agreements, discussion prompts, and scribe and reporter templates)
- 8.10-Question Post-Knowledge Survey
- 9.Companion eBook (50 pages)
- 10.Optional Premium Prezi Storyboard, 28 frames (+20 percent)
Preview the materials
Five pieces of the kit to explore: the deck, presenter notes, handouts, the breakout kit, and the companion eBook. Open any one and page through real, watermarked samples.
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Licensing options
Standard License
$397
Single-organization internal use. Delivered ready to facilitate.
Custom-Fit
$697
Your agency's name on the cover, your state's resources in the script, and a short call with our team before we build it, so the training already sounds like your community instead of being adapted after the fact.
White-Label / Agency License
$1,495
Full redistribution rights across every site in your network, source files your team can keep customizing, and a live orientation session so your trainers launch with confidence instead of a PDF and a login.
Because these are downloadable digital toolkits, all sales are final once a file is delivered. If a refund is approved by our team for an exceptional circumstance, a 25 percent processing fee applies to cover the cost of deactivating the license. Full terms are in our End-User License Agreement.