Community Crisis Peer Support Specialist

Ozark Center; Missouri; On-site; USD 40,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

Ozark Center is seeking a Community-Focused Peer Support Specialist to connect community members with essential mental health and housing resources. Using lived experience to foster trust, you will engage with residents, provide crisis support, and collaborate with law enforcement to reduce stigma and support wellbeing.

You will build relationships with local organizations, connect individuals to services, and coordinate with the Police Social Work team to ensure holistic, trauma-informed care.

Qualifications

• Lived Experience: Peer support specialists bring their own lived experience of overcoming mental health challenges or substance use.
• Holistic Approach: Peer support services focus on the whole person, considering social, emotional, and practical needs.
• Trauma Informed: Services are delivered within trauma-informed principles.

Responsibilities

• Community Outreach and Engagement: Actively engage with community members to identify those in need of peer support services.
• Crisis Intervention: Respond promptly when law enforcement identifies individuals requiring peer support and provide emotional support, active listening, and practical assistance during crises.
• Resource Connection: Connect individuals to mental health services, substance use treatment, housing, domestic violence, housing, and other community resources.
• Collaboration with Social Work Team: Work closely with other members of the Police Social Work team to coordinate services.
• Perform all other duties as assigned.

Job description

Ozark Center is seeking a Community-Focused Peer Support Specialist to connect community members with essential mental health and housing resources. Using lived experience to foster trust, you will engage with residents, provide crisis support, and collaborate with law enforcement to reduce stigma and support wellbeing.

You will build relationships with local organizations, connect individuals to services, and coordinate with the Police Social Work team to ensure holistic, trauma-informed care.