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Certified Peer Support
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What is a Peer Specialist?

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A Peer Specialist is an individual with lived recovery experience who has been trained and certified to help their peers gain hope and move forward in their own recovery. 

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HandUP is dedicated to developing a strong peer workforce. 

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This workforce is an integral part of treatment teams in both public and private settings including inpatient care, community-based services, consumer-run respite services, and in a wide variety of roles. This is a rapidly growing workforce and HandUP is here to help you become part of it today!

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The HandUP Peer Specialist works to:

  • Cultivate their peers’ ability to make informed, independent choices

  • Help their peers identify and build on their strengths

  • Assists their peers in gaining information and support from the community to make their goals a reality

  • ​Help peers create individual service plans based on recovery goals and steps to achieve those goals

  • ​Use recovery-oriented tools to help their peers address challenges

  • ​Assist others to build their own self-directed wellness plans
     

  • ​Support peers in their decision-making

  • ​Set up and sustain peer self-help and educational groups

  • ​Offer a sounding board and a shoulder to lean on…and more!

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