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Certified Peer Support Specialist

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By Angela S on Fri, 11/17/2023 - 14:19

Peer Support Services are a community-based service for adults age eighteen and older who have a mental illness or a substance use disorder.

A Certified Peer Support Specialist uses their lived experience to provide peer support services to persons with mental health diagnoses and/or substance use disorders.

Our Peer Support Specialists:

  • Practice and model self-care

  • Promote socialization, achieving goals, recovery, self-sufficiency, self-advocacy, development of natural supports, safety and maintenance of skills learned 

  • Appropriately document progress in a timely manner

  • Act as a role model to persons in recovery to inspire hope, share life experiences and lessons learned as a person in recovery, model recovery process and demonstrate coping skills, engage individuals who may be at risk and provide stage-appropriate recovery education and supports

  • Responsible for providing opportunities for individuals receiving services to direct their own recovery process while assisting to develop of a sense of wellness and self-worth

  •  Attend regular staff meetings and other required meetings, conveying observations and key issues to supervisors on an ongoing basis

Email your resume for consideration

vmillner@epiphanyfs.org

Contact Person
Vera Millner
Phone
704-236-4067
Email
vmillner@epiphanyfs.org
Industry
Mental Health
Substance Abuse
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Cabarrus
Rowan
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