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Peer Support Specialist
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**Job Description**:
**Peer Support Specialist**
**Early Psychosis - (re)MIND® Monterey (Salinas, CA)**
**Agency Overview**
Founded in 1889, the Felton Institute (formerly Family Service Agency of San Francisco) has a 134-year history of innovation in services for vulnerable children, families, and adults. Felton’s mission is to respond to human needs with cutting edge social services and treatment that combine the best social science research with cultural sensitivity, a deep respect for the consumer, and a commitment to social justice. With over 30 programs in 11 languages at sites throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and surrounding counties, our comprehensive array of services reaches across all racial, ethnic, cultural, and linguistic lines. At the heart of our work is the belief that individuals and families in crisis must have access to services and resources to help them build on their inherent strengths and develop self-sufficiency. Felton offers a dynamic, challenging, and supportive work environment where staff is encouraged to increase their skills and enter new domains.
**Program Description**
Early Psychosis is a Felton Institute program originally developed in partnership with the University California San Francisco (UCSF). Early Psychosis is dedicated to psychosis early detection and intervention with a multi-disciplinary approach to treatment. The Early Psychosis program model combines evidence-based practices including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Psychosis (CBTp), Strengths-Based Care Management, Multi-family Group Therapy, Peer Support, Algorithm-Based Medication Management, Individual Placement and Support (IPS) model of supported education and employment, and Cognitive Remediation Training to address issues early and get people back on track to a fulfilling life as quickly as possible. Early Psychosis program provides excellent training and workforce development and is poised for growth with new opportunities afforded by the expanding field of early psychosis. Funded through partnership with respective county behavioral health departments, the program implements evidence-based practices with outcome driven fidelity measures, and currently operates sites in five counties: San Francisco, Alameda, San Mateo, Marin, and Monterey.
**Position Overview**
The Peer Support Specialist is a member of the treatment team with the role of partnering with clients in the recovery process by engaging and building relationships through sharing their own personal lived experience of mental health issues. The Peer Support Specialist enhances engagement by inspiring hope and empowering clients to develop their own self-advocacy, and when necessary, models advocacy on behalf of the client to achieve their goals. The Peer Support Specialist is expected to provide services in the community, including but not limited to schools, job sites, family homes, or other community locations. This position reports directly to the Clinical Program Manager.
**Specific Duties and Responsibilities (Essential Functions)**
- Provide peer counseling and support strategically utilizing lived experience to validate and empower an individual’s own sense of hope and participation in their recovery
- Plan activities to help program participants to structure their time, decrease isolation, and provide opportunities to gain confidence in a variety of settings
- Provide direct support to assist program participants with challenges in the areas of independent living skills, wellness, housing, personal goals, socialization, and connection to their community, including advocacy organizations that promote consumer involvement in the mental health system
- Help individuals develop awareness of self-stigma, while also developing strategies to address culture-wide stigma and discrimination against people with mental health issues
- Provide skills-based socialization groups and plan group activities within the community
- Assist clients to get to and from appointments in the community as needed
- Provide outreach and engagement in collaboration with the team in the form of phone calls, on-on-one outreach meetings, community activities with clients, and group activities
- Maintain client contact sheets and assist staff therapists with treatment goals relevant to substance abuse, interpersonal relationships, rehabilitation, and mental health treatment
- Maintain regular communication with team members including attendance at weekly team meetings and any offsite treatment team meetings that may be established, as well as regular contact with team members regarding client updates on an ongoing basis
- Assist clients to participate in community events and connect with appropriate TAY resources in the community
- Coordinate caseload determined by program needs in weekly supervision with Program Manager and by close collaboration with team in weekly meetings
- Participate actively in supervision, staff meetings, case conference and
