“Peer, Employee, or System? A Community of Practice for Peer Supervisors” with Tanya Kraege
September 17, 2026 | 1:30PM – 3:00PM | Virtual – Zoom
This interactive Community of Practice brings peer support supervisors together to explore the real-world challenges of supervising peer professionals. Using the question “Is this a peer issue, an employee issue, or a systems issue?” as a guiding framework, participants will examine topics such as role drift and scope creep, burnout and grief, supporting staff through challenges in their own wellness or recovery, and balancing accountability with peer values. Through shared scenarios, reflection, and peer consultation, supervisors will strengthen their ability to identify where challenges truly live, and where the intervention belongs.
Tanya Kraege, LCSW, CSAC, Recovery Coach, WI Certified Peer Specialist
Tanya Kraege is the Director of Peer Services at Safe Communities in Madison, Wisconsin, where she leads peer support programs serving communities across Dane, Rock, and Jefferson Counties. With 17 years of experience in mental health and substance use services, Tanya has dedicated her career to working alongside people navigating substance use, mental health experiences, trauma, incarceration and reentry, relationships, and pregnancy and parenting while using substances.
In her leadership role, Tanya oversees Recovery Coaches and Certified Peer Specialists working in a variety of community, healthcare, criminal justice, and other settings. Her work centers on developing and strengthening peer-led programs that honor lived experience, reduce stigma, promote harm reduction, and create meaningful pathways to recovery and wellness for individuals and their loved ones.
Tanya also works nationally as a consultant, trainer, and advocate focused on anti-stigma efforts, peer support program development, and strengthening the integration of peer providers across systems of care.
Tanya is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Clinical Substance Abuse Counselor, Recovery Coach, Recovery Coach Trainer, and Wisconsin Certified Peer Specialist. Her professional expertise is deeply informed by her own lived experience of addiction and recovery. She uses her story alongside her clinical, leadership, and peer support experience to challenge stigma, create systems change, and help others find hope, connection, and new possibilities for their lives.
Above all, Tanya believes in the power of relationships, community, and lived experience and that people deserve to be met with dignity, curiosity, and hope wherever they are in their journey.
“It IS that Deep: Why is Everything About Race?”
with Marcia Galvan & Carmella Glenn
Tuesday, September 22, 2026 | 1:30PM – 3:00PM | Virtual – Zoom
Join us in this community of practice to discuss the systemic implications and historical foundations of racism to better understand why it is THAT deep.
Marcia Galvan
Marcia Galvan graduated from the University of Wisconsin Whitewater in 2014 with a BS in Political Science. She has almost years working with those impacted by the substance use crisis and those involved in the justice system. Marcia is a certified Peer Support Specialist and Peer Support Specialist Trainer for the State of Wisconsin. Marcia is an advocate of systems change and considers herself a system disrupter.
Marcia has been married to her husband, Joel, for 18 years. Together they have two children, Toretto (10) and Gabi (22). She enjoys spending time with her family and rescue animals (7 cats, 2 dogs, 6 ducks, and 12 chickens) on their small farm-ette, travel-hacking around the world, trying new foods, and writing about their experiences.
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Carmella Glenn
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