Peer Bridger/Mentor-(ESSHI) El Borinquen
Summary
Peer mentor in the Bronx helps residents recovering from substance abuse, mental illness, or homelessness by sharing lived experience and providing emotional support, counseling, and life-skills coaching.
Comunilife is looking for Peer Bridge Mentors to fill open positions for their El Borinquen Residence Program in the Bronx. Assisting to promote recovery, re-housing, and coping skills among program participants by providing emotional support, companionship, and the benefit of their own experience with substance abuse, mental illness and/or homelessness, after undergoing peer mentor training. The Peer Mentors assist program participants manage recovery issues by promoting mental and physical health, sobriety or harm reduction, self-care, medication compliance, and in general, a better quality of life and independence.
Essential Duties
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Assist with the outreach, engagement, and acculturation of program participants struggling with issues of mental illness, homelessness, and substance abuse
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Provide crisis intervention services and supportive counseling within capability and training to assist participants to reduce/eliminate self-destructive behaviors;
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Assist in building up the esteem and self confidence of participants, by engaging them in activities of mutual interest, accompanying participants to view apartments, or to appointments to aide in obtaining entitlements
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Encourage participants to learn about and access specialized and natural community support
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Using Peer Mentor Training and other skills to assist participants to appreciate and attain better mental and physical health, sobriety or harm reduction, services to help them manage mental illness issues and strive to attain and maintain independent living.
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Assist clients in teaching/learning activities of daily living skills.
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Peer Mentors will collaborate with case management staff on the needs of the client.
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Conduct groups to promote socialization skills and promote recovery.
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Documentation of interaction.