Goals of this document: • Define the titles and roles of peers in criminal justice and behavioral health collaboratives; • Stress the value and importance of involving consumers with relevant lived experience in collaboratives; • Provide guidance on how to involve consumers in collaboratives;...
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The steady climb of individuals in jails and prisons with behavioral health disorders has ignited a deeper dive in understanding the use of peer support to reduce recidivism, homelessness, unemployment and instability. Whether part of the formal process or simply as a matter of people building relationships in peer support groups, the notion of one to one peer support is central. Peer support groups and forensic peers, individuals who have been involved in the criminal justice system, provide a variety of support activities specifically aimed to help with re-integration and maintaining positive community involvement. The peer support specialist works from the context of recovery, frequently utilizing language based upon common experience rather than clinical terminology, and person-centered relationships to foster strength based recovery. The core principles of peer support creates a longer and competent role of recovery for individuals improving quality of life
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As peer support roles have expanded in the delivery of mental health treatment and support services, it has become evident that individuals with serious mental illness who have had criminal justice system involvement can leverage that experience into a unique position to help engage and provide services to peers in earlier stages of recovery. As agencies have increasingly become committed to including these individuals as voluntary or paid Forensic Peer Specialists in treatment and support service teams, many have met daunting legal impediments to employment because of the very experience that makes their inclusion on these teams so valuable: criminal justice history
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Many programs are interested in learning more about the recovery support services that peer staff can provide in the criminal justice system
Webcast slides and recording from the September 2018 "Integrating Peer Services Across the Justice System" webcast. #peersupports #substanceabuse #MentalHealth #Collaboration
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