Forensic Peer Mentor

Home, Hope and Healing Inc. & Aspire Behavioral Health and Counseling; Albany (GA); On-site; USD 42,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Home, Hope and Healing Inc. & Aspire Behavioral Health and Counseling seeks a Forensic Peer Mentor to provide recovery‑oriented peer support to justice‑involved individuals within a correctional setting, leveraging lived experience to promote hope, engagement, self‑advocacy, resilience, and successful community reintegration.

The role emphasizes collaboration with multidisciplinary teams, discharge and reentry planning, and facilitating connections to community behavioral health services,

Qualifications

• Forensic Peer Specialist Certificate is required or eligible to obtain.
• Physical requirements: none specified.
• No equipment required.

Responsibilities

• Provide recovery‑oriented peer support services that promote hope and recovery.
• Engage justice‑involved individuals using lived experience to facilitate access to behavioral health and recovery services.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to support coordinated care and successful reentry.
• Document peer support services in accordance with agency standards and regulatory guidelines.
• Assist with discharge and reentry planning and referral handoffs to community resources.

Skills

Forensic Peer Specialist Certificate

Education

Forensic Peer Specialist Certificate or eligibility to obtain

Job description

Position Overview

Position Title: Forensic Peer Mentor

Position Number: Date: 7/7/26

Work Unit: DCOP, County: Dougherty

Immediate Supervisor's Title: Eastern Counties Coordinator

Qualifications

• Forensic Peer Specialist Certificate or eligibility to obtain
• Physical requirements: none specified
• No equipment required

Bloodborne Pathogen Exposure

• Category I – routine exposure to blood or other potentially infectious material as part of assigned duties
• Category II – tasks generally not involving exposure but possible unplanned exposure may occur
• Category III – no exposure to blood or other infectious material under normal conditions

Mandatory Training Category

• Administrative
• Direct Care

Special Needs of Population Served

Work requires knowledge and skills necessary to understand the comprehensive needs and dynamics of individuals with behavioral health and substance use disorders, co-occurring conditions, and justice involvement in a correctional setting.

The Forensic Peer Mentor utilizes lived experience with recovery and/or justice involvement to provide peer support services that foster hope, engagement, self‑advocacy, resilience, and successful community reintegration.

Staff Should Be Able To

• Work under the direction of the Outpatient Program Coordinator to ensure the effective delivery of Jail In‑Reach peer support services.
• Utilize lived experience to establish trusting, recovery‑oriented relationships with justice‑involved individuals and engage participants in behavioral health and recovery services.
• Provide individual and group peer support services that promote hope, recovery, wellness, resilience, and successful community reintegration.
• Assist participants in identifying personal strengths, developing self‑advocacy skills, setting recovery goals, and increasing motivation to engage in treatment and recovery supports.
• Maintain timely, accurate, and complete documentation in accordance with agency policies, DBHDD standards, correctional facility requirements, and applicable regulatory guidelines. Complete monthly and other outcome reporting as required by the Program Coordinator and justice leadership.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary treatment teams, correctional staff, behavioral health providers, probation/parole officers, community agencies, and other stakeholders to support coordinated care and successful reentry.
• Assist participants with discharge and reentry planning by facilitating connections to community behavioral health services, substance use treatment, peer support, recovery community organizations, housing resources, employment services, educational opportunities, transportation, benefits, and other recovery supports.
• Provide education regarding recovery, wellness, relapse prevention, harm reduction, overdose prevention, coping strategies, community resources, and navigating behavioral health and criminal justice systems.
• Demonstrate the ability to establish professional peer relationships while maintaining healthy boundaries, confidentiality, ethical standards, and adherence to correctional facility security protocols.
• Participate in staff meetings, multidisciplinary case staffing, required trainings, supervision, quality improvement activities, and other program initiatives.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Duties Include

Ability to provide recovery‑oriented peer support services to justice‑involved individuals within a correctional setting while collaborating effectively with clinical, correctional, and community partners. Responsibilities include engaging participants through the use of lived experience; providing individual and group peer mentoring and recovery coaching; assisting individuals in identifying strengths and developing personal recovery goals; promoting hope, wellness, and self‑advocacy; documenting peer support services in accordance with agency and regulatory standards; participating in multidisciplinary treatment planning and case staffing; assisting with discharge and reentry planning; facilitating referrals and warm handoffs to community behavioral health providers, peer support programs, substance use treatment, housing, employment, education, transportation, and other recovery resources; educating participants regarding recovery, wellness, harm reduction, and community supports; maintaining compliance with correctional facility policies and procedures; promoting participant engagement in services; and contributing to improved recovery outcomes, reduced recidivism, increased community stability, and successful transition from incarceration to community‑based care. Employees are expected to perform all assigned duties in a competent, ethical, trauma‑informed, culturally responsive, recovery‑oriented, and person‑centered manner while adhering to Aspire BHDD policies, DBHDD Certified Peer Specialist standards, and applicable state and federal regulations.