Peer Support Worker
How can lived experience contribute to better services, more understanding and user involvement? In this education you get knowledge, tools and learn to reflect about how personal experiences can be used in a professional way in working life.
The education combines lived experience, professional expertise and practical learning.
Higher vocational education for peer support workers
In this education, you will get practical and theoretical competence in how you based on your lived experience can help and strenghten others.
The goal is to qualify persons with experience from receiving help from health- and wellfare services, to use these experiences in working life.
Peer support worker
Learn about the role, how they work and professional possibilities.
How to apply
Admission requirements, application process, documentation, and deadlines.
Practical info
How the education are organised.
Learning outcome
What you will learn in this education.
Internships
Information about internships.
Student stories
Experiences from former students.
Study all over Norway
The education is hybrid: you can participate online or in place. Our main office is in Trondheim. In additons we have decentralised education in Kristiansand, Hamar, Ålesund, Tromsø, Sarpsborg and Stavanger. If you live in other counties, you can participate digitally or go to gatherings in Trondheim.
One education - many possibilities
Peer support workers are working in for example municipalities, health services, volunteer organisations and projects.
With competence within user involvement, recovery and experience based knowledge, you ca be a resourse many places.
The education gives you tools to transform your own experiences to a professional resource where you can contribute to positive change for others.
Practical information
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60 ETCS
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Study one year full time or two years part time
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Hybrid lectures - participate online or in-place
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Lectures and seminars Mondays and Thursdays
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Internships in relevant services
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Price: NOK 700 in registration fee per semester
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Other expenses: Literature and tools (like a computer), and if relevant, travel and accommodation for the gatherings.