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  • Advancing Peer Support & Lived Experience Leadership – 2026 Upward Spiral Summer Series: 3rd Annual Meet the Authors & 4th Awards Recognition Ceremony

  • The Roots of Support: Building Leadership and Sustaining the Growth for the Future

  • Awards Recognition: Dr. Chyrell Bellamy Advancing Peer Support & Lived Experience Leadership Award, and Cheri Bragg-Acker Spirit of Recovery Award

  • Advancing Peer Support & Lived Experience Leadership: Upward Spiral Summer Series proudly presents authors from Connecticut & beyond for our 3rd hybrid gathering. These lived experience experts are transforming lives and inspiring hope! Come learn about their creative journeys and publishing processes. And you too can share your stories. By the way, "If you want to know about the book, ask the author," Kim Guy.

  • Date: Wednesday, September 30th, Time: 1:00–4:00 PM EST (Presentation 1:00–3:00 PM, One on One with the Authors and Book Signing 3:00–4:00 PM)

  • Format: Hybrid (In Person & Online)In Person Location: Yale Program for Recovery & Community Health (PRCH), Erector Square Bldg. 1,  319 Peck Street, New Haven, CT 06513

  • Light refreshments will be served!

  • For Questions Contact: Graziela Reis, Graziela.Reis@yale.edu

  • Sponsors: Yale LET(s) Lead Academy, Yale School of Medicine, Yale Department of Psychiatry, Yale Program for Recovery & Community Health

  • The Upward Spiral Summer Series is dedicated to bringing together the peer support workforce to connect, learn from one another, introduce and discuss critical perspectives to promote questions, growth, and advance thinking and practice among the Connecticut peer support community and beyond.

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  • Learn more about the authors below!

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