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Peer Specialist
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$17.5 an hour
Full-time
- Peer Specialists ignite the spark of hope that recovery is possible while promoting skills for coping with and managing symptoms and encouraging the use of natural supports and enhancement of community living skills.
- The ICTS team focuses on establishing and implementing comprehensive, individualized community-based services for individuals under supervision of department of corrections, who have substance use and/or co-occurring substance use disorders and mild to moderate mental illness, and are considered high risk for re-offending.
- Services provided to individuals in the ICTS program include substance use/co-occurring treatment, employment readiness, housing assistance, peer support, care coordination and community support, and crisis stabilization, as needed.
- Until fully certified, Peer Specialists complete trainings, attend team meetings, shadow IHSs and other PSSs, and, with Supervisory direction, see clients, both in supervised and independent fashion, but do not bill Medicaid for services until full certification is achieved
- Must self-identify as a current or former consumer of behavioral health, substance use, or co-occurring disorder services
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