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Youth Peer Support Specialist
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- Must have personal experience as a child/teen ("I have lived experience") in personally receiving mental health services or child welfare and be able to appropriately disclose and share that experience with young adults, ages 10-21, in order to foster hope, build resiliency, and develop self-advocacy skills that will empower them to achieve their goals.
- Peer support specialists provide structured, scheduled activities that promote socialization, recovery, self-advocacy, development of natural supports and maintenance of community living skills.
- Provide support and coaching interventions to individuals to promote recovery, resiliency, and healthy lifestyles, and to reduce identifiable behavioral and physical health risks.
- Peer support specialists actively engage with and empower individuals and their identified supports in leading and directing the design of the service plan and ensures that the plan reflects the needs and preferences of the individual and family (when appropriate) with the goal of active participation in the process.
- Must be able to demonstrate basic computer skills, be familiar with word processing, and have personal experience with mental health as a child or adolescent.
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