Maddi Mathon

Mental Health Peer Supporter & Facilitator

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Relevant Employment ExperienceVolunteer ExperienceTraining & CertificatesPost-Secondary Education

Career Goals

  • Contribute to mainstream mental health’s shift from a medical model to a recovery and trauma-informed one.
  • Increase the accessibility, availability, and effectiveness of community mental health and wellness supports.
  • Advocate for those who struggle with adverse mental health experiences, addiction, or maintaining wellness.
  • Promote public awareness and aid in public education surrounding mental health recovery and wellness.
  • Use personal experience and occupational recovery-focused training and education to support the above.

Skills Overview

  • Group facilitation and leadership
  • Recovery and peer-based program development
  • Trauma-informed practice and peer support
  • Anti-oppressive, intersectional feminist practice
  • Fluent in English and advanced in French

Qualifications Outline

  • Intentional Peer Support (IPS) Core Training
  • Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) Facilitation
  • Like Minds Peer Support Training
  • Pathways to Recovery Facilitation Training
  • Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)

Relevant Employment Experience

Peer Supporter / Founder-Director (Self-Employed)

Mutual Minds Peer Support
September 2020 – Present
  • Still in the development stages; planning to launch in the winter/spring of 2022.
  • Manages this peer support initiative aiming to help non-peer organizations to implement peer support programming.
  • Plans, organizes, and facilitates all-inclusive programs contracted out to other organizations in the community.
  • Developed the program offerings, which include peer support, peer-based recovery education, recovery-focused public education, and service provider workshops and groups.

Support Group Co-Facilitator (Contract)

Women’s Support Network of York Region
February 2020 – March 2020
  • Worked with other facilitators and counsellors to develop, propose, and run a new peer-based drop-in program.
  • Developed and facilitated DBT skills and art hive workshops in the community for survivors of sexual violence.
  • Worked within the organization’s integrative, feminist, trauma-informed, anti-racist, anti-oppressive perspective.
  • Managed group dynamics ensuring participant’s engagement and promoting a safe and supportive environment.
  • Debriefed group sessions and provided input and ideas for improving the program.

Volunteer Training Co-Facilitator (Periodic Contracts)

Women’s Support Network of York Region
January 2019, June 2019, October 2019, and June 2020
  • Worked with the other co-facilitator to deliver an integrative, anti-oppressive, anti-racist, feminist, and trauma-informed training for the incoming volunteers who would be working on the sexual violence crisis line.
  • Collaborated with the other co-facilitator to balance each other’s strengths and interests to present the program.
  • Supported participants in creating a safe and supportive environment, though activities, guidelines, and discussion.
  • Updated the training’s handouts and content to be more helpful, anti-oppressive, anti-stigma, and support-focused.

Peer Support Intern & Trainee (Contract)

Peer Recovery Education Program (PREP) at the Krasman Centre
November 2018 – April 2019
  • Training focused on intentional peer support principles, fostering a critical perspective of the mental health system, as well as the personal and systemic factors that support recovery.
  • Worked with other experienced peer supporters to open, close, and run the drop-in for a diverse population.
  • Supported visitors in crisis and provided personal care supplies and emotional support as desired by visitors.
  • Reminded visitors of the drop-in comfort agreement and strove to keep the drop-in as safe as possible for all.

Volunteer Experience

Planning Committee Member

Take Back the Night York Region
July 2019 – Present
  • Works with members of community agencies to organize this annual anti-gender-based violence march and rally.
  • Developed a website redesign as well as marketing and branding materials with support from the committee.

Crisis Line Volunteer

Women’s Support Network of York Region
September 2018 – July 2020
  • Provided confidential support on the crisis line using a feminist, trauma-informed, anti-oppressive approach.
  • Trained in supportive listening, safety planning, crisis intervention, trauma neurobiology, anti-human trafficking, and anti-domestic violence approaches to support survivors of abuse and/or sexual violence.

Support for Depression Group Co-Facilitator

CMHA of York and South Simcoe
November 2018 – November 2019
  • Co-facilitated weekly peer-based support group for a diverse group with a variety of mental health experiences.
  • Introduced topics during groups and guided the conversation to allow everyone a chance to speak.
  • Maintained confidentiality and anonymity of members while balancing an organizational duty-to-report policy.
  • Along with co-facilitators, opened, closed, and kept in order the office for the after-hours group session.

Training & Certifications

Peer Support Core Competencies Training – Centre for Innovation in Peer Support – pdf
December 2021
Mental Health First Aid (Standard) – Mental Health Matters – pdf
June 2021
Intentional Peer Support Core Training – Intentional Peer Support – pdf
September 2020
Like Minds Peer Support Education – Krasman Centre (PREP) – pdf
June 2019
Pathways to Recovery Facilitator Course – Krasman Centre (PREP) – pdf
June 2019
Anti-Oppression and Anti-Discrimination Education – Across Boundaries (PREP) – pdf
June 2019
Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) Facilitation Training – Krasman Centre (PREP) – pdf
April 2019
safeTALK Suicide Alertness for Everyone – Gerstein Centre (PREP) – pdf
January 2019
Crisis Intervention Training – Gerstein Centre (PREP) – pdf
January 2019
Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) – CMHA of York and South Simcoe – pdf
October 2018
General Training on Human Trafficking for Service Providers – MCIS Language Solutions – pdf
June 2018
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