Cherie Castellano

President /Founder
VolunPEER
Roseland, New Jersey, United States

Cherie Castellano, MA, CSW, LPC, AAETS Cherie is a national subject matter expert in peer support, created the best practice model “ Reciprocal peer support” and has led over thirty peer programs in 25 years as the director of the Rutgers National Center for Peer Support. After two decades of partnering with ICISF and Dr Everly Cherie has created VolunPEER a non profit organization to expand peer support in the wake of crises and disasters and collaborated with Dr Everly to offer an expansion of the CISM model with “ Peer Para-Counseling

Presentation(s):

• PC D/1 - Crisis Informed Peer Para-Counseling: Intervention Enhancement to the CISM Continuum Day 1

  Sunday, April 30, 2023
  8:00am – 4:45pm EST

• PC D/2 - Crisis Informed Peer Para-Counseling: Intervention enhancement to the Critical Incident Stress Management continuum Day 2

  Monday, May 1, 2023
  8:00am – 4:45pm EST

• GS IV-2 - Crisis Informed Peer Para-Counseling: Enhancement to the CISM Continuum

  Thursday, May 4, 2023
  10:00am – 11:45am EST