Peer Support Navigator
Description
POSITION SUMMARY:
The Peer Support Worker uses lived experience to conduct community outreach, re-engage
individuals at risk of loss to contact, ensure next-day clinic follow-up after mobile initiation, and
resolve barriers to care. Peer Support Workers support engagement and retention but do not
independently administer Contingency Management incentives.
POSITION DESCRIPTION:
- Conduct community outreach and engagement in the catchment area to reach
- individuals not yet in care.
- Provide lived-experience support and actively re-engage individuals at risk of
- disengagement.
- Ensure next-day clinic follow-up after mobile initiation and help resolve barriers such as
- transportation and Medicaid enrollment.
- Accompany and support individuals in navigating clinic-based and community services.
- Support, but do not independently administer, Contingency Management incentives.
- Maintain documentation of outreach and follow-up contacts in the electronic health record.
- Reports to Project Director / Licensed Mental Health Practitioner