Peer Support Specialist

Crestwood Behavioral Health•Fairfield, CA

16h•Onsite

About The Position

Peer Support Specialists are people in a peer-designated role providing direct services with a personal experience of recovery from mental health, substance use, or trauma conditions who receive specialized training and supervision to guide and support others who are experiencing similar mental health, substance use, or trauma issues toward increased wellness. A Peer Support Specialist is an individual who has made a personal commitment to his or her own recovery, has maintained that recovery over a period of time, has taken the 80-hour Peer Support Learning training (or equivalent) to work in mutuality with others, and is willing to share what he or she has learned about recovery in an inspirational way. Crestwood's Crisis Stabilization Unit is a program that is based in a recovery-focused environment where children, adolescents and adults in crisis are welcomed into a calm, warm, compassionate environment so that they may be assessed and provided mental health stabilization services, medication evaluation, management and linkages to a wide-range of outpatient and inpatient mental health services.

Requirements

Minimum of a high school diploma/GED.
A mental health/SUD lived experience.
80-hour Peer Support Learning or equivalent – successfully completed within 90 days of hire or has taken the training within 2 years of hire.
Current techniques of behavioral intervention training within six (6) months of hire.

Responsibilities

Providing direct services with a personal experience of recovery from mental health, substance use, or trauma conditions.
Receiving specialized training and supervision to guide and support others who are experiencing similar mental health, substance use, or trauma issues toward increased wellness.
Making a personal commitment to one's own recovery and maintaining that recovery over a period of time.
Sharing learned recovery experiences in an inspirational way.
Assessing individuals in crisis and providing mental health stabilization services.
Facilitating medication evaluation and management.
Linking individuals to a wide range of outpatient and inpatient mental health services.