Resources for Peer Support Professionals
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: 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM (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
Upcoming Professional Peer Only Events.
PSP BRANCH: New Peer, New Year!
December 18
New Year, New Peer: A BRANCH Fireside Chat with Tonya Wheeler
Start the new year by getting loud about what peer work is really for.
For December’s BRANCH, New Year, New Peer, we are featuring Tonya Wheeler, Executive Director of Advocates for Recovery Colorado, in a live fireside chat on the peer movement, the CPFS credential, and what it looks like to protect the soul of peer support in Colorado.
Tonya has spent her career working to set an example of authentic peer work, peer movement, and advocacy. Her vision is unapologetic:
Free services for all
Built to be not self-serving and for the entire community
Focused on people, not polished optics
Most importantly, Tonya keeps the spotlight where it belongs:
“This is not about AFRC. This is about the larger recovery community across Colorado.”
This BRANCH gathering is about coming together to put a face and a voice on recovery. It is a space for peers, CPFSs, supervisors, and allies to get real about what we are building, what we refuse to compromise on, and how we move as a unified workforce.
We will dig into:
What “authentic peer work” looks like when systems pressure you to water it down
How the CPFS role can shift culture inside organizations and across Colorado
Why free, accessible, community-rooted services are non-negotiable
How we sustain ourselves and each other as a growing peer workforce
Whether you are already certified, in training, supervising peers, or just peer-curious, this event is a chance to reconnect with your “why,” meet others who share it, and step into the new year with a stronger sense of collective power.
New Year. New Peer. Same mission: a recovery community where all of us belong.
For more information contact De Waldron
Posted In: Denver
Tagged: Advocates For Recovery Colorado, All Pathways of Recovery, Peer Support Professionals, Networking
AFRC Westminster Office
3440 W 71st Pl, Westminster, CO 80030
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.
