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About the Role

Peer Support services are peer-delivered services with a rehabilitation and recovery focus, designed to promote coping skills and facilitate the utilization of natural resources and recovery-oriented principles. This role uses trauma-informed, non-clinical assistance to achieve long-term recovery from a behavioral health disorder, assisting individuals and/or their families in initiating, maintaining, and enhancing the quality of their personal and family life in long-term recovery.

Responsibilities

Provide advocacy, including assistance seeking and obtaining benefits and entitlements, food, shelter, and permanent housing.
Assist recipients in participating in shared decision-making.
Use Peer Bridgers to assist with linkages to and systems navigation within behavioral health and allied human services systems.
Provide benefits advisement and planning.
Assist in the development of psychiatric advance directives (PAD).
Provide assistance advocating for self-directed services.
Offer outreach and engagement services, including companionship and modeling of recovery lifestyle.
Raise awareness of existing services and pathways to recovery, helping individuals remove barriers to access.
Conduct interim visits with individuals and/or their families after discharge from Hospital Emergency Rooms, Detox Units, or Inpatient Psychiatric Units.
Provide "Outreach" as a face-to-face service with a patient and/or their family to increase motivation for clinically indicated treatment.
Assist in selecting and utilizing self-directed recovery tools such as Relapse Prevention Planning.
Assist individuals in connecting to natural supports that enhance the quality and security of life.
Connect individuals to “warm lines” and self-help groups in the community.
Provide recovery education and counseling for individuals and their family members.
Offer one-to-one peer support.
Facilitate person-centered goal planning incorporating life areas such as community connectedness, physical wellness, spirituality, employment, and self-help.
Assist with skills development to guide people towards a more independent life.
Provide transitional supports, bridging individuals from jail, prison, institutions, or hospitals to their homes and the community.
Arrange for appropriate services, discussing and making appointments with the individual/family prior to discharge.
Provide pre-crisis and crisis support services, including companionship in emergency rooms or crisis units.
Offer peer support in the home or community to support individuals before a crisis or relapse.
Develop crisis diversion plans or relapse prevention plans.

Requirements

High school diploma or equivalent.
"Lived" / relevant experience.
Clean driving record for 3 years.
Must maintain certification requirements.

Skills

Communication
Organization
Crisis Management/Composure
Time Management
Confidentiality
Ethical Conduct

Location

Ogdensburg, NY

Work Type

Full Time
Part-time

Education Level

High school diploma or equivalent

Salary/Compensations

$16.50 - $20.50 Hourly

About the Company

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