Youth Peer Specialist

Job description

Overview Children's Outpatient Services provides treatment for children and adolescents and their families and is intended to improve and maintain a child’s or an adolescent’s stability in the community. Treatment focuses on problem resolution, symptom reduction, stabilization and/or prevention of movement to a higher level of care. Services include individual, family and group therapy, medication evaluation and management, case management, in home intervention, case consultation and summer day treatment services. The type of treatment is highly variable and depends upon the individual’s existing symptoms and developmental level. Responsibilities: Primary Job Functions: - Participates in one-on-one meetings or treatment team meetings to discuss ideas, difficulties, suggestions, and expectations - Provides social interaction, both individually and as a group, to develop social and recreational skills and to help participants develop insight into their mental illness - Promotes recovery-oriented skills to help achieve goals created in the treatment plan - Establish linkages that result in the participant’s active use of resources in the community - Assist participants in developing e...