Location: Kingston, NY20 hours a week (flexible)Rate of pay: $15OnTrackNY is an innovative treatment program that serves adolescents and young adults with psychosis.
The Peer Specialist will work as part of the OnTrackNY team with program participants, family and community members, and all other team members.
The Peer Specialist serves a unique role on the team, instilling hope in participants and families by drawing on their own lived experience of overcoming challenges with a psychiatric label.
Walking alongside participants on their recovery journeys, the Peer Specialist uses a non-clinical approach to support, empower, and advocate for young people as they contend with the difficulties and uncertainties of early psychosis.The Peer Specialist uses their lived experience and unique perspective to contribute to treatment planning for each participant, remaining youth-driven and facilitating the team’s development and maintenance of a culture of respect and shared decision making.
The Peer Specialist can provide an essential framework for highlighting the potential that each participant has for achieving a successful recovery trajectory.In addition to attending team meetings, Peer Specialists work directly with other team members to provide support and assistance to program participants.
Under the supervision of the OnTrackNY Team Leader, they provide direct peer support services to program participants in any setting that would be helpful – at the OnTrackNY program site, in the community, or in the hospital.Qualification: Personal or lived in experience with mental health and/or addiction.IND2022