Peer Support in the Latinx Community

This workshop will review the unique health disparities that the Latinx community faces while presenting Latino Behavioral's peer support model as an effective tool for supporting the community's mental health and substance use needs. At the end of this workshop, participants will understand how Latino Behavioral's peer support model is utilized to provide culturally and linguistically responsive mental health and substance use services to the Latinx community. Learning Objectives: - Describe 3-5 health disparities faced by the Latinx community; - Identify 3-4 ways to peer support can be cultural responsive for the Latinx community; - Describe 2-3 aspects of a successful systematic approach to effective peer support for the Latinx community; - List at least 4 tools for supporting effect peer support services.