- Training Details: February 11, 2026
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Advanced Ethics for CPRS: February 11, 2026, from 9 am - 4 pm ET
- Next Steps
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Training Evaluation
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Certificate Request Form
Advanced Ethics for CPRS: February 11, 2026: In-Person @ CODAC
This advanced ethics training is designed for experienced Peer Support Specialists to meet their biannual ethics training requirements. Building upon the CPRS training content, this training moves beyond basic “rules” and into the nuanced ethical decision-making that is required when working with vulnerable populations.
Participants will explore ethical gray areas that commonly arise in peer roles—including boundaries, dual relationships, power dynamics, self-disclosure, and confidentiality—through a trauma-informed, peer-led lens. Emphasis is placed on protecting the peer relationship and person served without sacrificing authenticity, mutuality, or any of the core values of peer support.
This training centers ethical practice as ongoing skill development, not a checklist that can be achieved. It promotes self-awareness, reflection, consultation, and a willingness to live in the gray in the face of ambiguity.
Learning Objectives
- Describe all key components of the RICB Code of Ethical Conduct
- Identify ethical gray areas and ways to navigate them effectively
- Explain the importance of strong boundaries in peer support work and practices in effectively setting and keeping them
- Describe the importance of supervision in both preventing and addressing ethical dilemmas
- Identify the process for filing an ethics complaint and setting expectations for participation if warranted
- Apply critical thinking skills and peer values to real life scenarios to promote learning and ability to handle ethical concerns as they arise in peer work
Trainer Bio
Elizabeth Black, LADC, has spent her career working with and on behalf of people with behavioral health disorders. She holds a master’s degree in Rehabilitation Counseling and is a Licensed Drug and Alcohol Counselor. Ms. Black serves as subject matter expert, trainer, and technical assistance provider for behavioral health and recovery initiatives. Her areas of interest and expertise include harm reduction, medication for opioid use disorder, rural healthcare systems, and health and wellness in recovery. Prior to her current role at C4 innovations, Ms. Black worked for the Department of Mental Health for the state of Oklahoma for over a decade. In her work there, she oversaw the implementation of health and wellness interventions into behavioral health services statewide. In that role, her team received a governor’s commendation for their work which resulted in better health outcomes in Oklahoma’s most vulnerable communities. She currently resides in Quincy, MA.
Training Facts:
- Date
- February 11, 2026
- Time:
- 9:00 am - 4:00 pm ET
- Location: In-person training at CODAC Royal Little Conference Room, 45 Royal Little Drive, Providence RI, 02904
- Subject: Ethics
- Practice level: Intermediate, Advanced
- CE credit:
- ASWB: 6 hours
- NAADAC: 6 hours
- NBCC: 6 hours
- Course type: In-person
- 6 hour training
- Covered topics: Advanced Ethics
- Date created: 2025
Who Should Take This Course:
Staff at all levels of health and human service agencies, behavioral health organizations, and recovery-centered organizations.
Refund and Cancellation policy:
Refund will be provided in full up to one week prior to the training date. After that, payments can be used towards another training.
Training Certificates:
Participants may earn a Certificate of Course Completion* by:
- Attending the entire 6 hour in-person training
- Completing all required learning activities
- Completing the course evaluation form and the certificate request form
6 hours of continuing education credit will be awarded upon completion of this course through ASWB, NAADAC, and NBCC. Certificates will be emailed directly to participants roughly two weeks after the completion of the training evaluation and certificate request form.
Accommodations:
If you need accommodations for disability, please contact Project Coordinator, Isabel-Kai Fisher at rhodetta@c4innovates.com.
Grievances:
If you would like to report a complaint, please contact Project Director, Rachel Ehly at rehly@c4innovates.com.
In order to fully complete this course and receive a continuing education certificate, you must arrive on time, fill in the sign-in sheet, and stay for the duration of the training, completing the evaluation. If you are a social worker, you will need to write in your license number in the sign-in sheet.
C4 Innovations, Provider #1457, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. C4 Innovations maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 10/17/2023-10/17/2026. Social workers completing this course receive 6 continuing education credits.
C4 Innovations has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6576. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. C4 Innovations is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
This course has been approved by C4 Innovations, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #100990, C4 Innovations is responsible for all aspects of their programming.