Certified Peer Support Specialist

A Prevail Certified Peer Support Specialist provides peer support to Prevail Users receiving services related to mental health and/or substance use challenges. They have their own lived experience of mental health and/or substance use challenges and have completed formal training and certification by the Prevail Academy in the peer specialist model of mental health and substance use-oriented peer support.

They use their unique set of lived experiences and recovery in combination with comprehensive skills-training, including continuing education, to support people living with mental health and/or substance use challenges. Certified Peer Support Specialists actively engage in peer support and associated principles in their work, while operating under a clearly defined role, and collaborate in a complementary and segmenting fashion to any other care the User may be involved in while working within Prevail Health’s structure and ethical guidelines.

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