Certified Peer Specialist Behavioral Health

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The People:
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Responsibilities:

A mental health certified peer specialist under the treatment supervision of a mental health professional or certified rehabilitation specialist must provide individualized peer support to each client promote a clients recovery goals self-sufficiency self-advocacy and development of natural supports and support a clients maintenance of skills that the client has learned from other services. The ability to share personal recovery experiences and to develop authentic peer-to-peer relationships is essential to effective CPS performance. Consequently CPS must hold the following beliefs and demonstrate the following qualities:

• A personal belief in recovery.
• A genuine hope and optimism that their peers will succeed.
• A sincere interest in the welfare of their peers including the ability to see each person as a unique individual.
• A willingness to share their own recovery experience.
• An ability to flexibly engage people based on their level of receptivity and individual needs acknowledging that even the same person may need different types of peer-based services at different points in their recovery process.

Qualifications:

• Must be or have been a consumer of behavioral health services.
• Must be certified as a Peer Specialist by Department of Human Services.
• A Mental Health Certified Peer Specialist must be at least 18 years old and qualify as stated in 245I.04 Subdv.10(1-3).

Required Experience:

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