Peer Support Worker - Behavioral Health Support (Part-time)

The Peer Specialist provides peer support services as a parent, consumer or young adult with lived experience in navigating mental health /substance abuse services. Serves as an advocate, shares coping skills, and provides recovery and resiliency related information for peers. The peer specialist performs a

wide range of tasks to assist and support people in directing their own lives and their personal recovery process. This means supporting people to live self-directed lives in self-determined roles are socially

included in communities of their choices. The peer specialist will role model competency in resiliency and recovery and ongoing coping skills.