Certified Peer Recovery Advocate

The Certified Peer Recovery Advocate (CRPA) supports individuals with substance use challenges by drawing upon lived recovery experience, professional training, and peer support practices. The CRPA engages individuals in recovery services, promotes connection to community resources, and provides non-clinical support throughout treatment, recovery, and transition planning.

The CRPA works collaboratively with program staff and community partners to encourage recovery engagement, strengthen connections to available resources, and support individuals in navigating services and recovery pathways.

• Engage in outreach with individuals currently participating in services or considering treatment to foster trust and encourage participation in recovery services.
• Utilize personal recovery experience and professional training to support engagement in treatment and progress toward recovery goals.
• Provide encouragement, education, and non-clinical peer support consistent with the individual’s recovery plan.
• Educate program participants regarding different recovery pathways and available resources.

• Connect individuals to community-based recovery supports consistent with treatment, recovery, and discharge plans.
• Promote awareness of social services and other community-based support resources.
• Link participants to formal recovery support services and assist with accessing benefits and resources as appropriate.
• Support individuals in navigating community services and recovery resources.

• Provide non-clinical crisis support, particularly following hospitalization or incarceration, to assist individuals with navigating transitions.
• Accompany individuals to medical appointments, when appropriate, to provide peer support and advocacy.
• Collaborate with program staff and community partners to support continuity of services.
• Complete other job-related duties as assigned.

• Maintain required CRPA certification or provisional credential in accordance with applicable requirements.
• Follow RECAP policies, procedures, program requirements, and applicable laws and regulations.
• Maintain confidentiality of participant, employee, and organizational information.
• Comply with applicable confidentiality requirements related to substance use disorder services, including 42 CFR Part 2, as applicable.
• Maintain appropriate professional boundaries when providing peer support services.
• Complete required documentation accurately and within established timelines.
• Participate in required training, meetings, quality improvement activities, and program initiatives.
• Support a safe, respectful, recovery-oriented environment.

Employees are expected to:

• Demonstrate professionalism, integrity, accountability, and reliability.
• Maintain confidentiality and appropriate professional boundaries at all times.
• Communicate respectfully and effectively with participants, families, coworkers, community partners, and other stakeholders.
• Demonstrate cultural awareness, respect, and sensitivity toward individuals with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
• Work collaboratively as part of a team while exercising sound judgment and initiative.
• Maintain a person-centered, recovery-oriented approach.
• Support RECAP’s mission, values, and commitment to providing quality services.
• Demonstrate flexibility and adaptability based on program and participant needs.

Work is performed in office, residential, and community/field environments. The position may involve exposure to varying weather conditions, noise, traffic, and other community-based environments. The employee may interact with individuals…