Peer Support Specialist, Maternal Health

About the Role

WCS is a mission-driven organization that empowers individuals facing challenges such as mental health issues, substance use, criminal justice involvement, and systemic inequities. We build life-changing relationships to help individuals reclaim their futures.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide 1:1 peer support to individuals and families in homes and community-based settings, using lived experience to build trust, engage participants, and role-model recovery.
• Support participants and caregivers in navigating substance use, mental health, behavioral health, child welfare, and other systems of care.
• Help individuals and/or their families to identify strengths, barriers, needs, goals, and priorities.
• Partner with participants, families, and care teams to develop strategies, plans of care, crisis plans, and recovery supports.
• Provide coaching, education, and practical support to strengthen wellness, crisis management, problem solving, and self-advocacy skills.
• Link participants and families to services, natural supports, and community resources to help build sustainable support networks.
• Promote engagement in services and recovery activities by accompanying participants to appointments, meetings, and community-based activities as needed.
• Complete required documentation, case records, and progress notes in a timely, accurate, and strengths-based manner.
• Attend and actively participate in supervision, staff meetings, trainings, and other required meetings.
• Assist with coverage for co-workers as needed.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Uses lived experience with mental health, substance use, co-occurring, and other life challenges to support, engage, and advocate for individuals and families.
• Must obtain peer support training and certification or complete it within one year of hire.

Qualifications

• Serves as a coach, mentor, and role model promoting hope, recovery, wellness, self-advocacy, and community involvement.
• Builds on individual and family strengths, enhances skills, supports problem-solving and crisis management, helps navigate systems of care, and promotes active partnership to improve quality of life and long-term outcomes.