Youth Peer Support Specialist (55331)

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Youth Peer Support Specialist has lived experience that is related to youth’s emotional, social, behavioral, or substance use treatment. They will provide mentoring and support to youth and young adults with an identified SED and SMI diagnoses.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Serve as an active member or a consultant of a youths treatment team for obtaining needed supports and services.
• Promote socialization, recovery, self-advocacy, preservation and enhancement of community living skills for individuals, parents, guardians and caregivers.
• Assist with provision of wraparound process by collaborating and consulting with targeted case management staff, team members, other professionals and community partners and agencies.
• Provide encouragement and support to youth and young adults by sharing lived experience.
• Support youth when attending team meetings to assist in advocating for self.
• Attend supervision weekly for the first year and 2x monthly (1 x individual and 1 x group) after the first year of certification.
• Organizational abilities; keeping calendar with appointments and peer notes completed withing 24 hours.
• Other duties assigned by Supervisor.