Build supportive relationships with clients by drawing on and appropriately sharing your lived or living experience of recovery
Offer connection, encouragement, and hope to individuals navigating substance use and concurrent mental health challenges
Share recovery insights and coping strategies to encourage hope and connection
Facilitate peer-led groups
Support clients in identifying personal goals and steps toward recovery and independence
Work collaboratively with staff while bringing a peer perspective to the interdisciplinary team
Maintain professional boundaries within the peer role and participate in agency-wide peer initiatives.
Qualifications
Comfort identifying as a person with lived or living experience of substance use and/or mental health recovery and using that experience in a peer support role