In this month’s Supervision Learning Network meeting, we tread carefully among the differences and similarities of the meaning of boundaries with peer and other staff while providing supervision, in this emerging dialectic. We review relevant ethics and values, talk a bit about stigma, and work our way through various situations that may arise on the job. Small groups discussed about how you, as a supervisor, would react to being placed in a particular ethical dilemma.

Our featured presenter was Gita Enders. She is a Licensed Master Social Worker and a NYS Certified Peer Specialist with over two decades of experience in the peer support services space, including direct service, training peer specialists, supervising peer and non-peer staff, speaking and writing, participating in and designing research, and consulting for a national range of non-profit, peer-run, and public health systems. She is also a co-editor of the book, “What it Takes: Wisdom from Peer Support Specialists & Supervisors,” and sits on the Board of Baltic Street Wellness Solutions, Inc.