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Peers are uniquely positioned in the delivery of healthcare, with a great opportunity to culturally broker relationships between people, health professionals and the overall healthcare

delivery system.�� By enhancing cultural competence, peers are able to recognize and share skills, attitudes and behaviors around discussions about culture of service-users and healthcare professionals.�� This allows for greater understanding between service-users

and the healthcare providers that serve them.

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We’ve learned that the didactic format of most cultural competency training does not provide an ideal modality for conveying the important tenets of cultural competency.�� Rather,

training collaboratives provides an opportunity for participants to have a safe space to reflect on their own culture and worldviews, and its effect on their recovery.�� This, in turn, becomes an educational experience for participants as they begin to exchange

their thoughts and feelings on how culture affects their personal recovery and work as peers.��

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The presenters of this webinar will describe the development of the Peer Cultural Competency Training Collaborative (PCCTC): Facilitator’s Guide which provides a strategy that

allows each participant to be involved in the “training” of others by sharing their cultural experiences, challenges and strengths.�� The PCCTC utilizes a group format that is centered on guided discussions and conversations of cultural competency themes over

four sessions.�� More importantly, participants obtain skills on how to have conversations around culture. ��

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