JENN CUSICK
trainer & facilitator

Provide your employees with high quality trauma-informed, recovery-oriented education.
Jenn has the experience to train your employees!

Jenn is the curriculum writer and developer for the BC Peer Support Training Curriculum.

If you are in BC and you are looking for funding to provide training for your staff, check out the BC Employer Training Grant!

Mental health matters.

Transform the healthcare, corporate, and education systems by utilizing lived and living experience.

PSR, Psychosocial Rehabilitation, Mental Health, Mental Health Clinicians, Mental Health organizations

Wellness Recovery Action Plan, WRAP, Wellness Plan, Copeland Center for Wellness and Recovery

offerings & services:

Peer Support Training & Consulting
Facilitator skills training (skills for delivering any kind of workshop)
Trauma-Informed Leadership
Curriculum development and writing
Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP)
Psychosocial Rehabilitation education for mental health practitioners
Consulting and resources to individuals and organizations bravely committed
to challenging the status quo

Jenn is the curriculum developer and writer for the Provincial Peer Support Worker Training Curriculum on the Peer Connect BC website.

Jenn is the recipient of the 2023 Merlot Classics Award for the BC Campus Post-Secondary Peer Support Training Curriculum.

well-being =

COMPASSION/SELF-COMPASSION
LIVING WITH INTENTIONAL PRESENCE.
A GENERATIVE APPROACH
CULTIVATING COMPASSIONATE CURIOSITY.
TRUE BELONGING

pioneering

Jenn has been working in community mental health for over 25 years.

1999: Jenn began leading one of the first mental health funded peer support programs in the province of BC.

2002: Jenn spearheaded the implementation of a revolutionary mental health recovery program Wellness Recovery Action Plan into the agency she worked for. Now WRAP is offered across Western Canada. Jenn her team of co-facilitators have trained WRAP facilitators across Canada.

2018: Jenn wrote Foundations of Support, a Peer Support training curriculum for Alberta Health Services–Edmonton Zone, and Mental Health Recovery Partners South Island.

2020: Jenn won the contract from the Provincial Government of BC to develop and write the official peer support training curriculum for the province of BC.

2021: The BC Peer Support Training Curriculum is released to the public on July 16th.

2022: The Post-Secondary Peer Support Training text book published

2023: Jenn wins the MERLOT Classic Award for the post-secondary training!

“Jenns work and teaching style in peer support and wrap facilitation, has not only shaped my career, but influenced how I go about my personal interactions. The wisdom I’ve taken away from every training has helped me examine my bias and unpack discomfort. A true nurturer of compassion and empathy.”
-Natalie Miller

organizations jenn has worked with:

writings

Featured

Apr 20, 2023

2023 Winner of the MERLOT Classics Award!

Apr 20, 2023

A few months ago I got what I thought was a spam email. It was from MERLOT. MERLOT is an international community of educators, learners, and researchers. They told me that I won the 2023 Classics Award in the category of Health Sciences for the Post-Secondary Peer Support Curriculum manual that I wrote.

Apr 20, 2023

Apr 13, 2023

The Discomfort of Uncertainty

Apr 13, 2023

Self-Care for Employees Begins with Good Leadership

Join me for this 6-part article series where I cover some important points for leaders to be aware of when supporting the well-being of employees. If you are not a leader, you can apply these ideas to your own life.

As humans, it is essential to have some certainty and predictability amongst the chaos of uncertainty. We need some things we can count and rely on to build up some tolerance to meet uncertainty without falling apart. Certainty can come in the form of connection, routine, fun at work, spending time on hobbies at home, self-care practices, intrinsic motivation, and alignment with organizational and personal values.

Apr 13, 2023

Feb 15, 2023

The Importance of Language in Recovery-Oriented Organizations

Feb 15, 2023

Words create worlds. The words we choose to use, and the meanings behind them, continually shape our present and future.

When we were kids we chanted the rhyme, “Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” However as adults we know this is untrue. Words can profoundly hurt and leave scars that can last years. I can imagine that a lot of us might be still nursing scars from hurtful words we have received over our lifetimes.

The topic of language is something on the radar for PSR focussed organizations committed to serving with recovery-oriented practices.

We always have more to learn.

Feb 15, 2023