Living Room Peer Support Specialist (Wheelhouse)

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide peer counseling and support using lived experience; provide guidance and encouragement to clients to take responsibility and actively participate in their own recovery.
• Collaborate with the team to promote a team culture in which each client’s point of view, experiences, and preferences are recognized, understood, and respected.
• Helps clients identify, understand, and combat stigma and discrimination associated with mental health and substance use disorder and develop strategies to reduce self-stigma.
• Increase awareness of and support client participation in consumer self-help programs and consumer advocacy organizations that promote recovery.
• Serve as the liaison between the team and consumer-run programs such as self-help groups and drop-in centers.
• Assist in intake and triage process by completing initial paperwork necessary for initiation of treatment. Identify and engage CCBHC services as appropriate.
• Facilitate delivery of telehealth services through assisting with technical needs on-site and providing needed information to providers off-site.