Peer Support Service emphasizes personal safety, self worth, confidence, growth, connection, boundary setting, planning, self-advocacy, personal fulfillment, the helper principle, crisis management, meaningful activity and work, and effective communications skills. Services emphasize development, and expansion of rehabilitative skills needed to move forward in recovery. This is built on the unique support relationship between the Peer Support Specialist and the individual, and the individual’s family as requested and defined by the individual. Peer Support Service is a helping relationship between consumers/survivors that promotes respect, trust and warmth and empowers individuals to make changes and decisions to enhance their lives.
Peer Support Services are needed to:
- Provide support and encouragement to individuals and their families when individuals first begin to receive services,
- Provide support during intake and assessment, case management, and rehabilitation group services
- Support to clients while they are adjusting to medications,
- Support throughout recovery, relapse episodes, and during discharge planning
Peer Support Services are person-centered with a recovery focus. Peer Support Services facilitate the development of self-help skills. Services are provided by trained Peer Support Specialist who works under the direct supervision of a Mental Health Professional or Behavioral Health Technician. The Peer Support Specialist is a current or former consumer of services as defined as some who has or has had a serious mental illness and having received treatment for it; or Self-identifying as a current or former consumer. A Peer Support Specialist has following experiences and abilities:
- Ability to demonstrate recovery expertise (knowledge of approaches to support others in recovery) and has the ability to demonstrate own efforts at self-directed recovery; and/or
- Has complete and passed a certification training program approved by Cenpatico Behavioral Health of Arizona.
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