PEER RECOVERY EDUCATION PROGRAM The Alliance Peer Recovery Education Program (PREP) is a capacitybuilding skills training program that harnesses the power of Peer mentoring to help others initiate and maintain healthy behaviors. PREP empowers participants to sustain long-term recovery as well as to develop a marketable skill set. Upon graduation, Alliance annually supports paid internships for over 100 Peer Educators who become community role models, and provide prevention education and connection to care services in communities across New York City.
ABOUT ALLIANCE Alliance for Positive Change transforms lives of New Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS and other chronic illnesses so they can feel better, live better, and do better. We help people access medical care, manage and overcome addiction, escape homelessness, get back to work, and find community. By addressing the underlying issues that contribute to poor health, Alliance’s individualized, full-service approach and harm reduction philosophy help New Yorkers lead healthier, more selfsufficient lives. All Alliance services are free, confidential, and offered in English, Spanish & French/Haitian Creole at our six community centers in Herald Square, East Harlem, East Village, Lower East Side, the Bronx, and Washington Heights.
PEER RECOVERY EDUCATION PROGRAM A NYSDOH Peer Foundational Training
Virtual Graduation Ceremony Cycle #57
SUPPORT Funding for the Alliance Peer Recovery Education Program (PREP) is made possible through the generous support of the New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute.
Tuesday, November 2, 2021 2:00pm – 3:00pm Zoom Meeting ID: 831 4727 8087 Password: 123 412
ALLIANCE PEER GRADUATION Tuesday, November 2, 2021
Peer Graduates Aaron Cornell McKenzie Jr. Concetta Logiudice Gary Carlile Jr. Gayle Dorsky-Falkowitz Gloria Balcacer Jermaine Burrell Keith Johnson Kenneth Taylor Milton Marciè Chase Michael Brown Michelle Thompson Myeisha Hendricks Pedro Santiago Ramsey Centeno Raschel Marshall Richard Robert Wilson Slyvia K. Owens Tina G. Wright Trevor Donray Wiggins
PROCESSION OF GRADUATES MASTER OF CEREMONY Brenda Starks-Ross, Deputy Executive Director/COO OPENING REMARKS Sharen I. Duke, Executive Director/CEO KEYNOTE ADDRESS Andrea Mortlock, Harm Reduction Peer Graduate of PREP Cycle #41 SPECIAL ADDRESS Jean Pierre-Louis, Director of Prevention Services PRESENTATION OF CERTIFICATES Brenda Starks-Ross, Deputy Executive Director/COO Jean Pierre-Louis, Director of Prevention Services Joyce Myricks, Lead Trainer Carolina Corona, Trainer Eric Ramos, Trainer Stephen Williams, Senior Peer Liaison PEER GRADUATE TESTIMONIAL Michelle Thompson CLOSING REMARKS Stephen Gass Alliance Board of Directors
PEER RECOVERY EDUCATION PROGRAM The Alliance Peer Recovery Education Program (PREP) is a capacitybuilding skills training program that harnesses the power of Peer mentoring to help others initiate and maintain healthy behaviors. PREP empowers participants to sustain long-term recovery as well as to develop a marketable skill set. Upon graduation, Alliance annually supports paid internships for over 100 Peer Educators who become community role models, and provide prevention education and connection to care services in communities across New York City.
ABOUT ALLIANCE Alliance for Positive Change transforms lives of New Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS and other chronic illnesses so they can feel better, live better, and do better. We help people access medical care, manage and overcome addiction, escape homelessness, get back to work, and find community. By addressing the underlying issues that contribute to poor health, Alliance’s individualized, full-service approach and harm reduction philosophy help New Yorkers lead healthier, more selfsufficient lives. All Alliance services are free, confidential, and offered in English, Spanish & French/Haitian Creole at our six community centers in Herald Square, East Harlem, East Village, Lower East Side, the Bronx, and Washington Heights.
PEER RECOVERY EDUCATION PROGRAM A NYSDOH Peer Foundational Training
Virtual Graduation Ceremony Cycle #57
SUPPORT Funding for the Alliance Peer Recovery Education Program (PREP) is made possible through the generous support of the New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute.
Tuesday, November 2, 2021 2:00pm – 3:00pm Zoom Meeting ID: 831 4727 8087 Password: 123 412