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WorkSource Oregon Family Support Partner in SALEM, Oregon
This recruitment is for a Peer Support Partner who will provide support, encouragement and assistance to caregivers of youth with mental health challenges and their families. The Family Support Partner must have experience with their own lived experience raising a youth with mental health challenges and multiple systems involvement. The Family Support Partner will promote activities that foster empowerment by sharing their personal experiences when appropriate. They will support the family in gaining linkage to needed services and activities. Developing natural support systems and building self efficacy skills. GENERAL STATEMENT OF DUTIES The Peer Support Specialist provides support, encouragement, and assistance to mental health consumers. The specialist will promote those activities that foster recovery and empowerment by sharing their personal experiences when appropriate, modeling self-help and wellness activities. A consumer advocate who facilitates and connects individuals to services and activities. As a member of the treatment team the incumbent provides expertise, experience, and consultation to the team to promote a culture in which each individual\'s point of view and preferences are recognized, respected, and integrated into treatment. EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING REQUIREMENTS As defined by OAR 309-019-0105 (81) \"Peer Support Specialist\" means an individual providing peer delivered services to an individual or family member with similar life experience under the supervision of a qualified clinical supervisor and a qualified peer delivered services supervisor as resources are made available. 1. A self-identified person currently or formerly receiving mental health services; OR, 2. A self-identified person in recovery from an addiction disorder, who meets the abstinence requirements for recovering staff in alcohol and drug treatment programs; OR 3. A self-identified individual in recovery from problem gambling; OR 4. The family member of an individual currently or formerly receiving addictions or mental health services.