Resources for Peer Support Professionals
What is PSP BRANCH??
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PSP BRANCH is an in-person networking event created by and for Peer Support Professionals that rotates locations monthly and draws participants from across the state of Colorado. Each gathering offers a space to connect, collaborate, share best practices, and learn from one another in a professional yet peer-centered environment.
By hosting or sponsoring this event, your organization makes a tangible investment in sustainability of workforce, community harmony, and visibility within the behavioral health ecosystem. This isn't just a meetup-it's a movement!
P.S.P B.R.A.N.C.H.
Peer Support Professionals Building Relationships And Networking for Community Harmony
WHEN: Fourth Wednesday of every month (unless noted otherwise)
TIME: 5:30PM—7PM (unless noted otherwise)
WHERE: Rotating locations across Colorado
(Location shared with registered attendees)
PSP B.R.A.N.C.H. is more than a meetup—it’s a living, breathing movement built by and for Peer Support Professionals (or credentialed CPFS-Certified Peer & Family Specialists)across Colorado.
Each month, peers gather to connect, collaborate, and sharpen the edge of recovery work through shared experience and grounded practice. Whether you're here to recharge, build new alliances, or explore creative approaches to peer work, you're in the right place. We cover it all! From hosting panels and keynote speakers, to facilitating workshops and education to strengthen the professional development of deeply needed mutual aid support.
Facilitated by Dë Waldron, CPFS
AFRC Peer Networking and Training Coordinator
August PSP BRANCH ~ Culture, Power & Belonging
August 19, 2026
Online on Zoom!
PSP BRANCH Networking – Culture, Power & Belonging
Culture shapes how people experience services. Power decides whose voice carries weight. And belonging often determines whether people stay.
This month, BRANCH is bringing back Culture, Power & Belonging, an interactive workshop created specifically for the peer support workforce.
Together, we’ll explore how culture, identity, lived experience, bias, and power show up in the spaces where we work and serve. We’ll look beyond traditional ideas of “cultural competence” and get curious about the assumptions we carry, the systems we work within, and the influence peer professionals have to create spaces where people feel genuinely seen, valued, and included.
We’ll talk about cultural humility, implicit bias, power dynamics, stigma, and the difference between simply being invited into a space and actually belonging there.
Most importantly, we’ll bring it back to peer practice: Where do we hold power? How do we use it responsibly? And how can we create belonging without asking people to shrink, translate, or sanitize themselves first?
Expect conversation, reflection, connection, and probably at least a little productive discomfort. Because people are far more complex than the narratives assigned to them, and peer support should be one of the places where that complexity is allowed to exist.
BRANCH: Building Relationships And Networking for Community Harmony brings Colorado peer professionals together to connect, learn, challenge one another, and strengthen the workforce we’re building together.
Peer Support Professionals Zoom Meeting (E.C.H.O.)
Every FRIDAY - 7:30AM - PSP ECHO is an acronym for Peer Support Professionals Empowering Community Helping Others. This is a safe meeting space for Peer Support Professionals *only*. Meaning, No participants. No supervisors. No administrators.
ECHO is meant for Peer workers from all walks (recovery, mental health, unhoused, veteran, etc.) to come together for support, networking, resources, and collaboration. This is a brave place where we are given the space to vent, ask questions, and be there for one another.
We need definitive space away from those we support so we can fulfill our own needs.
P.S.P. B.R.A.N.C.H.
Join us for a monthly networking event
designed exclusively for Peer Support Specialists!
