Peer Support Specialist

7 days ago

Guelph, Ontario, Canada Stonehenge Therapeutic Community Full time
About the Role

This position will work closely with the Supportive Addiction and Mental Health Housing program to provide peer support services to clients/patients. The program is a collaborative effort between multiple agencies.

The Supportive Addiction and Mental Health Housing program provides housing, practical support, counseling, advocacy, landlord mediation, and eviction prevention to individuals living in the community who are dealing with significant addiction and mental health issues.

The Peer Support Specialist will play a vital role as a member of our multi-disciplinary teams by offering a range of practical and emotional supports from the perspective of their lived experience, and embodying a sense of hope and possibility for the future.

Key Responsibilities
  • Deliver support in a manner that is consistent with a peer scope of practice and emerging best practice, reflecting key principles of the harm reduction and recovery-oriented approaches to care.
  • Engage in purposeful and deliberate sharing of your own lived experience of homelessness and/or addiction/mental health recovery to facilitate the development of strong, peer support connections with program participants.
  • Partner with program participants in achieving the wellness goals they have identified for themselves in relation to substance use, mental health, and other domains of life.
  • Partner with participants to connect to local resources by providing service navigation support and appointment accompaniment where necessary.
  • Partner with participants to develop meaningful connections to their community, and facilitate community building with program participants and the community.
  • Co-facilitate house meetings, psycho-educational and support groups.
  • Crisis planning and intervention as required.
Collaboration and Capacity Building
  • Work effectively and in collaboration with the broader Supportive Addiction & Mental Health Housing Team, including clinical staff of CMHA-WW, and The County of Wellington, as well as external service providers, the family/support networks of participants, and other stakeholders.
Documentation and Administration
  • Participate in program development activities as required, including program evaluation, data collection and input, process improvement, etc.
  • Make referrals to internal and/or external programs or services, as appropriate.
  • Perform all other duties as assigned.

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