Trauma Informed Peer Specialist

Healthy Minds Philly; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); Vor Ort; USD 36.000 - 48.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Healthy Minds Philly seeks a Trauma Informed Peer Specialist to support residents in Philadelphia, focusing on behavioral health and wellness goals through trauma-informed, population-health approaches.

The role is part of the Trauma Informed Peer Services (TIPS) program, deployed to high-need neighborhoods, including gun-violence affected and refugee communities, offering connection to services and peer support.

Jobbeschreibung

Salary:
$42,000.00 Annually

Position Summary:

The Trauma Informed Peer Services (TIPS) program will blanket the City of Philadelphia with peer services with a trauma informed and population health focus. The Trauma Informed Peer Specialist position will work as part of a specialty workforce of Certified Peer Specialists, Certified Recovery Specialists, Community Autism Peer Specialists, Community Health Workers, and Certified Family Peer Support Specialists to address the growing needs of those in Philadelphia who have been impacted by multiple layers of trauma. This is a new model for reaching individuals in Philadelphia’s underserved communities and connecting them to appropriate services. The connection and support provided in the highest at-risk neighborhoods would serve multiple purposes, including on the ground wellness support, connection to treatment, and inviting those with trauma lived experiences to become peers themselves, providing economic opportunity and further infusing their communities with this much-needed support. TIPS peers will be deployed to the most trauma impacted neighborhoods in Philadelphia, many of whom will have come from those impacted communities.

Trauma Informed Peer Specialists will work with this DBHIDS collaborative initiative to provide person-centered support to help community members with behavioral health and wellness challenges achieve their self-identified wellness goals This position will be focused on communities in Philadelphia at risk of experiencing multiple incidents of trauma; specifically: (1) communities impacted by high rates of gun violence, and (2) refugee communities. TIPS will promote and protect the health of these populations experiencing health care disparities using trauma informed, culturally humble, and population health frameworks. This position may work more than 50% out of the office and in various culturally diverse communities. Employees must be able to work in an office environment that may include varying levels of noise, distraction, lighting, and privacy.

This is a grant-funded position through December 2027. Additional funding will be sought to extend the position, but funding cannot be guaranteed.