Certified Peer Support- Youth Parent

Position Summary/Function

The Parent Peer Support Partner’s (PPSP) role is to provide intentional, authentic support to a parent or primary caregiver of a child with emotional, physical, behavioral, and/or mental health challenges. The skilled PPSP’s unrelenting focus is on the parent/caregiver. Primary functions include but not limited to:

Essential Duties/Responsibilities/Functions/Tasks

• Establish peer-based relationships using strategic self-disclosure to build connection based on understanding the parent’s experience.
• Build a strong sense of connection based in equality, common respect and mutuality.
• Demonstrate active listening skills, empathetic responses and validate the parent’s experience.
• Use person-first and strength-based language in every interaction with the parent/primary caregiver.
• Encourage growth as a peer by actively accepting the parent’s decisions and communicating a sense of acceptance even when you disagree.
• Manage personal bias and disagreement so it does not interfere with the support relationship.
• Respect throughout the relationship.
• Link with others in collaboration and problem solving by suspending and interrupting bias and blame.

Required Qualifications/Education/Experience

• High School Diploma or GED.
• Must be a parent/primary caregiver with lived experience who has raised or is currently raising a child with emotional, behavioral, physical or mental health or substance abuse needs, and must have experience in navigating at least two child-serving systems.
• Must successfully complete Certified Youth Parent Peer Specialist training and exam upon hire.
• Must understand and endorse a recovery-oriented approach to providing services.
• Possess a valid Driver License with good MVR and reliable transportation.
• Must meet insurability requirements to drive a system vehicle (21 years of age).

Prior Experience

• One (1) year experience with target population.
• Previously completed Certified Youth Parent Peer Specialist training and exam.

Benefits

• Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama Health and Dental Insurance.
• Alabama State Retirement.
• Paid Holidays.
• Paid Time Off-Sick time, personal, vacation leave.
• Company paid life insurance AD&D and dependent life insurance.