Peer Mental Health

Customer Support

• Provides peer support as someone who has similar life experiences and acts as a positive role model for living in recovery
• Supports individuals in creating their own person-directed recovery plans
• Meets individuals at OHSU on the Medical Unit in a hospital room where they receive care
• Connects individuals with a full range of community resources
• Attends morning huddle meetings to present pertinent information to care teams
• Collaborates with various professionals in supporting care plans
• Documents support services in compliance with policies and regulations

Peer Support Specialist – OHSU Impact

• The Peer Support Specialist (PSS) provides peer support as someone who has similar life experiences and acts as a positive role model for living in recovery.
• The PSS is a member of interdisciplinary teams participating in collaboratively supporting an individual’s self-defined and self-directed care.
• The PSS supports the individual being served by creating their own person-directed recovery plan and accomplishing goals towards their self-defined recovery journey plan.
• They provide a listening, nonjudgmental presence and connect individuals being served with a full range of community resources.
• As a part of the multi-disciplinary team, this PSS engages directly with people experiencing homelessness to facilitate connection and engagement with health and social services and other services and supports the people being served are seeking.
• PSSs support people in taking the next step in the care continuum by talking directly with people in the field, finding out what they need, identifying programs, resources, and services that will best meet those needs, and removing obstacles to accessing those programs, resources, and services.
• Goals include helping people experiencing homelessness enter shelter; develop trusting relationships with their medical or behavioral health home; and access food and material resources.
• Essential functions include providing 1:1 peer support to diverse individuals being served in accordance with The Peer Company’s values alignment and principles of peer support, collaborating with individuals to create Person Directed Plans (PDPs) to support their individualized recovery journey, and participating in regular peer support supervision sessions.

Peer Support Specialist – JOHS Navigation Team

Program Coordinator

• The Program Coordinator works collaboratively with the Senior Director, program participants and applicants, and community partners to implement program objectives
• This role will coordinate the work of Project PEER participants and community partners to ensure successful outcomes
• Responds to incoming referrals and general inquiries about Project PEER
• Provides program orientation and ongoing support and modeling to Project PEER participants throughout the project lifespan
• Community Outreach to potential referrers and internship sites
• Identify and engage referral or internship providers
• Coordinate information sessions
• Educate referral providers about Project PEER so that they can make suitable referrals within grant parameters
• Cultivates relationships with outside agencies, including other peer-delivered services agencies in the area and across Oregon
• Supports professional working relationships with key partners throughout the state and conducts outreach to build key partner pool of available internship sites
• Provides administrative support through activities such as arranging logistics for virtual meetings and facilitating monthly connection opportunities for participants and experiential learning/internship site partners

Peer Support Specialist – OHSU Impact

Peer Support Specialist – JOHS Navigation Team

HRSA Program Coordinator