Peer Support Specialist (Part- Time) (12021)

About the role

Baltimore Crisis Response, Inc. (BCRI) is a nationally recognized nonprofit and Baltimore’s only comprehensive crisis response system. Since 1992, we’ve been at the forefront of behavioral health crisis care — providing timely, community-based services for individuals and families experiencing mental health and substance use challenges. We are seeking Peer Support Specialist to work alongside Emergency Medical Services in Baltimore City, providing brief crisis intervention for individuals experiencing substance use issues or overdoses. In this role, you’ll connect people to recovery programs, coordinate care, and offer support for mental health, addiction, and homelessness challenges. This position is more than crisis response — it’s an opportunity to make a meaningful, life-changing impact, strengthen community connections, and help individuals move toward recovery and wellness.

Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with members of EMS and other members of BCRI’s team to provide support and resources to individuals experiencing substance use issues or homelessness.
• Work with individual in a substance use crisis to develop a crisis plan, provide linkage to care and introduce other crisis planning tools to the individual as needed.
• Respond alongside EMS to overdoses in Baltimore city to provide linkage and connection to services.
• Work with individuals in crisis to assist with continuity of care by giving them mental health, addiction, peer recovery support and other needed resources.
• Build relationships with addiction, mental health and homeless outreach providers, peer recovery support and other community resources.
• Performs timely and accurate documentation of all clinical and client-related information.
• Maintains professional open, effective, and appropriate communication with clients, BCRI staff, management, outside agencies and the public.
• Empower participants to become self-advocates for their own recovery/wellness.
• Maintains professional boundaries with clients, staff and other outside agencies.
• Works with all clients from a strengths-based perspective, providing support and encouragement