Painted Brain’s 40-hour Peer Services for Justice Involved Specialization Training provides additional training that builds on the knowledge, skills, and abilities of Certified Medi-Cal Peer Support Specialists through self-reflection, skill building, practice sessions, and guided group exploration.

The 40-hour cohort-style training covers the 12 Core Competencies required for Specialization in Peer Services for Justice-Involved

Painted Brain is an Approved Training Vendor through CalMHSA’s Medi-Cal Peer Support Specialist Certification Program, providing the 80-hour Per Support Certification Training since 2022 when the curriculum was overhauled to meet training requirements and make it simple for students to study for their certification exam.
Our revamped curriculum has 17 modules, each corresponding to a different Core Competency to simplify studying. 

Painted Brain is a Continuing Education Training Provider through the Medi-Cal Peer Support Specialist Certification Program.

We offer a variety of Continuing Education Courses to further prepare and educate Certified Medi-Cal Peer Support Specialists in preparation for biannual recertification.

One such training is our Law & Ethics Course, which fulfills the six-hour requirement in Law and Ethics to maintain the CMPSS recertification as required every two years by covering the basics of law and ethics and focusing on guiding ethical principles and relevant laws.

Painted Brain’s Digital Health Literacy training is a series of courses developed for peers that aims to increase digital health literacy among mental health consumers and the general public.