Peer Support Specialist (Family Peer & Recovery Support)

Child Focus • Mt Orab, OH

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About The Position

Child Focus is seeking a compassionate, motivated, and dedicated Family Peer Support and Peer Recovery Support Specialist to support children, adults, parents, and families navigating behavioral health challenges, mental health concerns, substance use recovery, and complex service systems. Using lived experience, personal insight, and professional peer support training, the specialist helps individuals and families build on their strengths, develop resilience, access community resources, and work toward long-term stability and wellness. The role collaborates with clinicians, service providers, and community partners to connect clients with appropriate services and promote positive outcomes.

The Certified Peer Support Specialist provides community-based and/or home-based direct services to families involved in Mobile Response & Stabilization Services (MRSS), offering ongoing support to parents and families in the intensive, in-home program. The specialist maintains an active caseload of approximately 8–15 families and accompanies an MRSS clinician to in-person assessments for families with youth ages 0–20 experiencing behavioral and/or emotional crises. During MRSS responses, the specialist supports parents, discusses ongoing services, completes paperwork, and offers further assistance as needed. The specialist explores available services, including individual and family therapy, CPST/TBS, connection to ongoing services, and immediate crisis support, documents services according to agency and service-contract requirements, and collaborates with the MRSS team to assist families with stabilization.

This is a full-time, day-shift role with a flexible schedule and one required late-day shift each week, from 11:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Openings are available in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Mt. Orab, Ohio.

Requirements

• Hold a current Certified Family Peer Supporter or Peer Recovery Supporter credential, or be eligible to obtain certification based on relevant lived experience.
• High school diploma or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Provide empathetic listening and emotional support.
• Assist families in navigating systems.
• Supply information about child-serving systems, children’s behavioral health and development, and community resources.
• Provide advocacy support.
• Facilitate familial engagement with service providers.
• Engage in safety and care planning and explore and eliminate barriers to care-plan follow-through.
• Offer parents skill-building that enhances resiliency, communication, advocacy, and other areas affecting their ability to maintain a child with complex needs.
• Provide community-based and/or home-based direct services to families involved in MRSS.
• Maintain an active caseload of approximately 8–15 families.
• Accompany an MRSS clinician to in-person assessments for families with youth ages 0–20 experiencing behavioral and/or emotional crises.
• Support parents during MRSS responses, discuss ongoing services, complete paperwork, and offer further assistance as needed.
• Explore services available through MRSS, including individual and family therapy, CPST/TBS, connection to ongoing services, and immediate crisis support.
• Document services provided according to agency and service-contract requirements.
• Collaborate with the MRSS team regarding current clients to assist families with stabilization.

Benefits

• Competitive salaries.
• Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental insurance and an EAP program.
• Health Savings and Flex Spending account options with agency match.
• Generous paid time off.
• Extended Illness benefits.
• 403(b) retirement plan with generous employer match.
• Company Car program and mileage reimbursement.
• Federal Student Loan Forgiveness program eligibility and tuition reimbursement.
• Paid Internships.
• On-site childcare with employee discount.
• Employee wellness benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: High school or GED