Peer Specialist

Essential Job Functions:

Outreach/Engagement/Bridge Building: Helping to facilitate engagement by forging strong connections with participants and families residing in Harlem/Bronx and surrounding communities. Undertaking outreach activities designed to promote community awareness of S:US services, encouraging help- seeking, and at times serving as a bridge between treatment team members and participants when they experience ambivalence about substance use treatment (including Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) and outpatient Substance Use Disorder (SUD) treatment).

Combating Overdose: Peer Specialists will be certified to train and distribute Naloxone kits to...