Peer Specialist

SAFY is seeking a full time Peer Specialist (Mobile Crisis) for our Aurora division in Colorado
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As a Peer Specialist
, you will provide a wide range of support services with children, adolescents, and identified adults. Assist Mobile Crisis Team members, families and clients by coordinating, identifying local resources and assisting with case management duties. Serving the Denver Metro area.

For 40 years, our work has rested on a single, radical idea – children belong in families. We believe that every child and family deserve the opportunity to reach their full potential. We are a team of 500 employees across seven states providing services such as Family Preservation & Reunification, Behavioral Health, Therapeutic Foster Care, Adoption Services and Older Youth Services so the families and children we serve can build resilience and thrive.

• Provides support to Mobile Crisis Team members during assessments/evaluations that are completed in community settings.
• Assist in the assessment of a client’s behavioral health status and provides evidence-based intervention strategies.
• Provides telephone and short-term face-to-face interventions to help stabilize people in crisis and prevent further criminal justice involvement, or hospitalization when possible
• Performs a wide variety of non-clinical tasks to assist clients in regaining control over their own lives and recovery process, in partnership with Mobile Crisis Responders, Leads or Shift Supervisors.
• Providing insight into your own lived experience and practical guidance, Peer Specialist help individuals to develop their own goals, create strategies for self-empowerment, and take concrete steps towards building fulfilling, self-determined lives for themselves.
• Will support individuals in recovery to connect with their own inner strength, motivation, and desire to move forward in life, even when experience challenges.
• Documents all patient contacts and other clinical information.
• Supports the Mobile Crisis team with community outreach, resources, and education.

• Establish and maintain a positive working relationship with all levels of SAFY staff by participating in joint meetings, and problem identification and resolution.
• Establish and maintain a supportive and positive working relationship with youth, foster parents, referring agencies, and other SAFY stake holders.
• Attend relevant in-house and external seminars, trainings, conferences, and workshops to develop and enhance knowledge in the designated area as well as achieve relevant education hours per year to enhance professional and job-related skills.
• Attends required meetings within division, region, and central office (team and/or community partners).
• Participate in assigned committees and chairs if so appointed. If appointed, maintains liaisons with state and national organizations.
• Meets regularly with supervisor to discuss issues and performance.
• Submit monthly/quarterly reports to immediate supervisor.
• Sensitive and responsive to the cultural differences of staff, SAFY youth, foster parents, referral sources and the public.
• Agency agrees to provide Mobile Crisis Services in response to requests from community corrections facilities, detention facilities, jails, courts, pretrial services, probation and parole offices, and any other adult or juvenile justice service in the community unless similar services are already offered in that location and would create duplicative application of services.
• Will be able to collaborate with and may include existing Co-Responder and Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) programs as part of the mobile response network.
• Other duties as assigned by supervisor.

We are looking for people from diverse backgrounds and experiences who are inspired by our noble mission to make a difference in the lives of the children and families in our care. You’ll be right at home if you are willing to learn from successes as well as setbacks, persevere in challenges and adversity, cultivate collaborative relationships, understand and leverage diversity, advocate for equity, aspire to work inclusively, and partner to drive your work and that of…