FULL TIME: Monday - Friday, 8am -

Overview

The Peer Recovery Specialist provides a relationship to vulnerable persons that can help keep an unmotivated or poorly organized client connected to services and maintain housing placements. The approach in peer recovery has key differences to the approach taken by a treatment provider. The Peer Recovery Specialist has responsibility for integrating the lived experience into clients’ treatment goals and services by practicing a strengths-based and harm reduction approach to recovery and wellness.

Overview

The Peer Recovery Specialist provides a relationship to vulnerable persons that can help keep an unmotivated or poorly organized client connected to services and maintain housing placements. The approach in peer recovery has key differences to the approach taken by a treatment provider. The Peer Recovery Specialist has responsibility for integrating the lived experience into clients’ treatment goals and services by practicing a strengths-based and harm reduction approach to recovery and wellness.

Overview

The Senior Peer Recovery Specialist will serve as a model, mentor, advocate, and motivator for clients in the behavioral health department. This position integrates the lived experience into clients’ treatment goals and services by practicing a strengths-based and harm reduction approach to recovery and wellness. This position also provides support and mentorship to peer recovery staff across departments.

The addictions counselor utilizing the harm reduction approach will provide SUD assessment, education, counseling on substance use disorders, chemical dependency, relapse prevention, and anger management/coping skills, to high school students (and their families) within a BCPS (Baltimore City Public Schools) during the school day.

The Peer Recovery Specialist (PRS) provides support, guidance, and advocacy to individuals and families on the recovery continuum with addiction, mental illness, co-occurring disorders, and family/allies of behavioral health. Utilizing their lived experience, they offer empathy, understanding, and practical assistance to aid individuals in their recovery journey. This position will afford recovery support needs and refer individuals/families to the appropriate community resources that are beyond the scope of these services.

This position is onsite Monday - Friday, 11am to 7pm

Peer Recovery Specialists are individuals with the lived experience of substance abuse, mental, and/or behavioral health challenges.  They provide a safe, supportive and confidential environment in which peers serve as role models for recovery from drug abuse,  provide linkage to community resources, and promote overall wellness. 

Looking for People in Recovery or Allies & Advocates of Recovery!

Would you like to work with others who want to help their community?

We will provide all trainings for free and pay you to complete them so that you can become a certified Peer Recovery Specialist!

Voices of Hope provides fully paid for Dental and Vision Insurance, Short Term Disability, a plentiful Paid Time Off Package, as well as a $300 monthly stipend for any medical expenses. We also provide an on-staff certified Trauma Therapist available to all of our employees!

The Jude House is looking for a Recovery Residence Manager at an all-female Recovery Residence (The Robin's Nest).
This position requires a detail-oriented individual with leadership skills and a passion for helping
others recover from a substance use disorder. The Recovery Residence Manager is a full-time, livein
professional with the responsibility of managing and coordinating the Recovery Residence. This
includes duties related to administration, housekeeping, and daily living. This position works

The Peer Support Specialist supports individuals in their recovery through individual and group meetings that provide information, dispel myths, and inspire hope.  The Peer Support Specialist assists with care coordination.

The Peer Support Specialist supports individuals in their recovery through individual and group meetings that provide information, dispel myths, and inspire hope.  The Peer Support Specialist assists with care coordination.

Baltimore County Detention Center is located at 720 Bosley Avenue Towson, MD 21204

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