Peer Family Advocate
Core
Provides linkage to services, support, and empowerment for patients and families recovering from mental health challenges, serving as a role model and advocate within inpatient and community settings.
Role type
Peer Family Advocate (Clinical Support)
Builds
Patient recovery plans, support networks, and community resource connections
Domain
Mental Health / Psychiatry
Deliverable
client delivery
Required skills
Active listening, rapport building, crisis management, self-help facilitation, advocacy, teaching daily living skills, navigating treatment systems
Preferred skills
Experience as a peer advocate, experience overcoming mental illness challenges, experience as a parent/caregiver of a child with behavioral health challenges
Technologies
None stated
Responsibilities
Facilitate self-help groups and activities to build peer networks; assist patients in managing crises and developing coping strategies; provide short-term emotional support and education to families; connect patients and families with community resources; model recovery and advocate for patient rights; participate in interdisciplinary treatment planning
Seniority
Entry-level to Mid-level, hands-on IC