Peer Mentor - Intensive Home-Based Therapeutic Care

The Brien Center; Pittsfield (MA); On-site; USD 30,000 - 45,000; Part time

Job summary

The Brien Center is seeking a Peer Mentor in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, to support youth in achieving a better quality of life through personal recovery stories and engagement.

Ideal candidates will have personal recovery experience, strong problem-solving skills, and the ability to assist youth in making decisions related to their wellness. This position emphasizes modeling positive recovery practices and community resource knowledge.

Qualifications

• Individual with lived experience willing to share positive recovery story.
• Minimum of 6 months to 1 year of personal recovery.
• Minimum of 1 year of sobriety for individuals with substance issues.

Responsibilities

• Support youth in care to achieve success and satisfaction.
• Promote person-centered self-determination and decision-making.
• Model wellness and recovery through personal stories.

Skills

Lived experience in recovery

Problem solving skills

Listening and communication skills

Knowledge of community resources

Job description

General Description

Actively support and assist youth in care to experience success and satisfaction in their lives by improving their quality of life by modeling, being an active listener, and sharing the reality of wellness and recovery. The Peer Mentor will promote person centered self determination and decision making through the use of their own recovery stories and lived experience.

Qualifications and Skills

• Individual with lived experience willing to share positive recovery story for the purpose of promoting recovery and wellness for youth and to support the mission of recovery principles
• The Peer Support Mentor will have a strong personal recovery skills set
• Problem solving skills and ability to suggest options and alternatives
• Support the belief that youth with lived experience can and do recover
• Strong listening, oral and presentation (communication) skills
• Minimum of 6 months to 1 year of personal recovery with lived experience
• Minimum of 1 year of recovery/sobriety for person living with alcohol/substance issues
• Knowledge of community resources