In my role as Director of Education and Training for Baltic Street AEH, Inc., I’ve instituted and implemented a week-long New Hire training designed to acclimate peer staff to the culture of peer work, our agency, and the tools we use.
Additionally, I direct the Community Resource and Wellness Center, where the team and I strive to help our participants reclaim their power and learn new ways to approach the obstacles and barriers they encounter.
Before re-joining the BSAEH family, I was the Coordinator of Training & Education at the Howie the Harp Peer Advocacy Center. I’ve trained peers at Goodwill Industries Leadership Forum and Creedmor’s Peer Training Academy and presented to providers, including the Greater New York Hospital Association. I have keynoted 4 times at the Meet the Xperts! Conference in the Netherlands and Austria. I have presented at numerous NYAPRS and the New York City Working Peers conferences and at Alternatives, WRAP regional conferences, and USPRA. For four years, I served as a peer mentor to a Public Psychiatry Fellow at Columbia University. I hold certifications in Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Health and Wellness Coaching, Expressive Arts Therapy, WRAP, and WHAM! Facilitation.
Working at Baltic Street AEH, Inc. has enabled me to create a life beyond my hopes and dreams for myself. I am blessed, grateful, honored, and humbled to be part of this amazing team of people who work so hard to help people enhance the quality of their lives.
Sara Goodman, Director of Training/ Resource and Wellness Center