About
peerNetworks forum.
peerNetworks is a forum held on Zoom on Monday mornings from 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM with interviews, guest speakers, Q&A and discussion. It’s free. Inspired by his favorite podcasts, Kevin Fitts has started peerNetworks to keep community conversations about behavioral health system best practices, technical assistance, and policy discussions interesting and timely.
You can attend and simply enjoy listening to the interviews and discussion or participate in the interactive discussions. Participants can also sign up to receive 1.5 MHACBO Accredited CEUs each week. Start your Monday morning in an interactive forum for information and perspectives on health and policy issues in an engaging conversational Zoom meeting that may be the most interesting conversation you will be a part of all week. Kevin and all participants keep peerNetworks lively as well as informative.
CEUs.
Each week you can earn 1.5 MHACBO Accredited Continuing Education Units (CEUs). We share the CEU sign up form right there every week during the event itself. Advance registration beyond signing up for the peerNetworks weekly mailing list is not necessary.
Sign up.
Sign up for our weekly announcement emails that include the link and access codes needed to enter the online peerNetworks Zoom meeting space. We email the peerNetworks Zoom link and access codes usually 1 to 3 days in advance.
If you’re signed up and do not see the weekly email, you may need to check your email spam folder, or the “Promotions” tab in Gmail, or the “Notifications” tab in other email clients.
Zoom.
If you do not have Zoom already, you can sign up for a free account here.
You can also sign up get more features with a paid account here.
Origins.
Kevin Fitts is our most frequent facilitator on Monday mornings, and the program director. Since founding Oregon’s first statewide mental health consumer technical assistance center in 1998, Kevin has become well-known as a leader educating and empowering people trying to understand services navigation and systems improvement. Through work with the Oregon Mental Health Consumers Association, he has established solid working relationships with peers, state employees, local government employees, state legislators on both sides of the aisle, professors, mental health advocacy leaders from across the United States, and other health system stakeholders. His collaborative ability to get things done has been recognized with the Governor’s Disability Leadership Award in 1999, the Multnomah County Public Service award in 2018, the Oregon Peer Leader of the Year award in 2018, and the national Judi Chamberlin Award for Advocacy in 2021.
Kevin is inspired regularly by being part of a community of peers with lived experience coping with trauma and/or addiction challenges. He brings deep insights into the short-term and long-term effects of behavioral health policies and best practices implementation. As a thought-provoking speaker who is also a good listener, he also knows how to be part of a fascinating exchange of ideas.