Outreach Peer Advocate (CRPA or CRPA-P)

Position Summary: The Peer Recovery Advocate conducts street outreach and engagement activities with individuals. Using a harm reduction and person-centered approach, combined with personal experience, they will learn about the needs of individuals encountered, provide education on services and resources available to them, and provide in-person warm handoff introductions to service providers. Direct Supervisor: Director of Behavioral…

Family Peer Advocate

Compeer is a dynamic, 45-year-old, community-based program that uses the power of human connection to help those living with mental illness and behavioral health challenges reach their full potential. Caring volunteers and staff help individuals identify and develop strengths, reducing isolation and feelings of loneliness, and shatter the stigma around mental health. www.compeerrochester.org  Through the power…

Adult Peer Specialist/Supportive Partner for Recovery (Bi-Lingual)

POSITION: Supportive Partner for Recovery/Peer Specialist This person will serve as a peer mentor to adults 21 and over with mental health and/or substance use disorders.  The Supportive Partner/Peer Specialist will work with referred individuals on life skills, socialization, and other areas as needed to assist in mental health and substance use recovery.  Evenings and…

Youth Engagement Specialist

The Youth Engagement Specialist will provide Skillbuilding-style services to youth with behavioral health challenges ages 5 to 21. The Youth Engagement Specialist assists individuals to eliminate functional deficits and interpersonal/environmental barriers to restore their functioning and integration within their family, community, or culture. Youth Engagement Specialists provide face to face person-centered, recovery-oriented, solution focused interventions…

Certified Peer Specialist /Peer Care Manager

Join a premier organization dedicated to Creating Community and having opportunities every day for people that matter. Human Development Services of Westchester (HDSW) is community-based not-for-profit, having been involved in the evolution of community-based direct-care services for vulnerable populations in New York State since 1968. In today’s ever-changing health care marketplace, HDSW offers person-centered, trauma-informed,…

Bilingual Peer Counselor

Bilingual with a CRPA or CRPA-P certificate Position Overview Under general direction, The Peer will work with the team to provide community based support with a rehabilitation and recovery focus using shared lived experiences in NYS OASAS regulated programs. In addition, the Peer Worker will work as a fully integrated team member providing individual face…