Cheryl Gagne
Senior Associate
Cheryl Gagne, Sc.D., directed a training program for Massachusetts addiction professionals. She also served as subject matter expert, trainer, and technical assistance provider for SAMHSA’s Bringing Recovery Supports to Scale Technical Assistance Center Strategy. In this role, Cheryl developed skill-based curricula for providers including peer workers and led the team that described core competencies for peer workers for SAMHSA. Throughout her career, she has developed training interventions to meet the learning needs of diverse groups of healthcare providers and behavioral health and public health programs in the US and abroad.
Previously, she worked at the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at Boston University where she assisted providers, programs, and systems. Her focus was on improving capacity to deliver recovery-oriented, health promotion services to people with behavioral health conditions, including people with co-morbid physical and psychiatric health conditions. She also contributed to the development of the Illness Management and Recovery curriculum. Her professional skills are influenced by her experiences as person in long-term recovery from bipolar and substance use disorders and the experiences of family members. Cheryl received her Doctorate of Science from Boston University.
Examples of Cheryl’s Work
- Providing Peer Support in Crisis Services (60:07 minute video)
- Integrating and Supervising Peer Workers (4:02 minute video)
- Health and Recovery 1: Kindness, Dignity and Respect, a podcast episode
- Peer Support Roles: Evolving Professional Landscape, a podcast episode
- Recovery at Work: Cheryl Gagne (Part 1), a podcast episode
- Cafecito Conversation with Cheryl Gagne (46:06 minute video)
- Substance Use and Mental Health Recovery Support
- Opioid Overdose Prevention and Support
- Praxis: Training for MA Addiction Professionals
- Core Competencies for Peer Workers in Behavioral Health Service by C4's Cheryl Gagne as well as Neil Greene with funding from SAMHSA's Bringing Recovery Supports to Scale Technical Assistance Center Strategy (BRSS TACS) project
- Core Competency Self-Assessment Tools by C4's Cheryl Gagne as well as Orla Kennedy with funding from SAMHSA's Bringing Recovery Supports to Scale Technical Assistance Center Strategy (BRSS TACS) project
- Self-Assessment Tools
- Engages peers in collaborative & caring relationships
- Provides support
- Shares lived experiences of recovery
- Personalizes peer support
- Supports recovery planning
- Links to resources, services & support
- Provides information about skills related to health, wellness & recovery
- Helps peers to manage crises
- Values communication
- Supports collaboration & teamwork
- Promotes leadership & advocacy
- Promotes growth and development
- Self-Assessment Tools
- Supervision of Peer Workers resources: how to use these resources, supervision of peer workers guidelines, slide deck with trainer notes, supervisor self-assessment, supervision resource list by C4’s Cheryl Gagne as well as Neil Greene with funding from SAMHSA's Bringing Recovery Supports to Scale Technical Assistance Center Strategy (BRSS TACS) project
- Peer Workers in the Behavioral and Integrated Health Workforce: Opportunities and Future Directions by C4's Cheryl Gagne and Livia Davis as well as Wanda Finch & Keris Myrick was published in American Journal of Preventive Medicine in June 2018.
- Supporting Parents in Recovery by C4’s Cheryl Gagne as well as Valerie Gold, Joanne Nicholson and Nancy Suchman with funding from SAMHSA's Bringing Recovery Supports to Scale Technical Assistance Center Strategy (BRSS TACS) project
- A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Peer-Run Antistigma Photovoice Intervention by C4's Cheryl Gagne as well as Zlatka Russinova, Sally Rogers, Philippe Bloch, Keith M. Drake & Kim T. Mueser was published in Psychiatric Services in February 2014.
- Combating Prejudice and Discrimination through PhotoVoice Empowerment Workbook by C4's Cheryl Gagne as well as Alexandra Bowers & Zlatka Russinova was published by the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation in 2010.
- Recovery: A Common Vision for the Fields of Mental Health and Addictions by C4's Cheryl Gagne as well as W. White & W.A. Anthony was published in the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal in 2007.
- Implementing Recovery Oriented Evidence Based Programs: Identifying the Critical Dimensions by C4's Cheryl Gagne as well as M. Farkas, W.A. Anthony & J. Chamberlin was published in the Community Mental Health Journal in April 2005.
- Recovery from Serious Mental Illness: What It Is and How to Support People in their Recovery by C4's Cheryl Gagne as well as L.S. Spaniol & M. Koehler was published in The Psychological and Social Impact of Disability (4th Edition) in January 1999.
- Psychological and Social Aspects of Psychiatric Disability by C4’s Cheryl Gagne as well as L. Spaniol & M. Koehler was published by the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation & Boston University in 1997.