Certified Peer Recovery Supporter - Ohio Program

Summary

The function of the Certified Peer Mentor is to help families navigate the child welfare and other systems by providing peer support and promoting healing to keep children safe and families together. The Certified Peer Mentor will serve families referred to the public children services agency. Employees are expected to value the highest ethical standards, quality clinical care, and good customer service.

We also value quality communication skills in a collaborative, multi-disciplinary, and often multi-agency environment.

Responsibilities supervised by an appropriately licensed mentor include:

• Informs clients of limits to confidentiality and rights regarding services delivered.

• Assist with the safety of the child(ren) by working collaboratively with the Ohio START case worker and behavioral health provider to ensure a seamless and efficient delivery of intensive wrap-around services.
• Assist with the transportation of peers.
• Participate in initial meetings, weekly status meetings and Family Team Meetings to review families; progress and child safety in their respective cases.
• Teach families skills to effectively navigate the child warfare system.

• May refer clients for emergency consultation and crisis assessment intervention.

• Maintains efficient and timely documentation of services within GESMV Behavioral Health and Ohio START guidelines.

• Integrates services and/or makes referrals to appropriate professionals or outside agencies as indicated.

• Participates in the assessment of programs needs and peer review, as well as cooperates with performance improvement and Key Performance Indicator (KPI) as defined.

• Performs community outreach, information, referral, and education assignments, as well as consultation services as approved by supervisor.

• Comply with confidentiality and protected health information rules including FERPA and HIPPA.

• Attend community meetings, GESMV staff meetings, in-services, case conferences, supervision sessions, etc., as scheduled.

• Comply with all Agency policies, procedures, and safety standards throughout work areas and maintains same to meet CARF, ODBH, Department of Labor, and other regulatory standards.

• Assists Sr, Manager, Clinical Behavioral Health and Director, Behavioral Health Operations with planning and development of additional Peer Recovery Support services through GESMV.

• Performs other related duties as assigned, including support activities as needed to augment functioning of the agency.

• Under the supervision of the Sr. Manager, Clinical Behavioral Health may administratively and clinically supervise the work of Peer Recovery Supporters, interns, and volunteers. Co-supervision with Children Services Manager and the Peer Support Manager as the direct supervisor.

• Must have a minimum of high school diploma or GED.
• Must be certified by the Ohio Department of Behavioral Health as an Ohio Peer Recovery Supporter or agree and can become certified upon hiring.

• Minimum of two (2) years demonstrated long term recovery from a substance use disorder required. Three or more years preferred.
• Must demonstrate no ongoing criminal activity.
• Have lived experience with the child welfare system as a parent, with the case closed at least one year, or indirect lived experience with the child welfare system. Indirect loved experience means the candidate navigated a system (mental health, SUD recovery, public benefits, court, etc.) coupled with:
  1) Intervention by a relative who took informal/formal custody of their child(ren),
  2) an understanding of how their substance use/recovery affected their own child(ren), or
  3) raising a child of a relative/friend with a substance use…