Job Description

Volunteers of America South Central Louisiana is seeking to hire a Family Peer Support Specialist in the Lake Charles area.

The Family Peer Support Specialist is responsible for providing peer support services, education, and training for behavioral health consumers and behavioral health advocacy services. The duties of this position are entry level, with direct supervision from an experienced License Mental Health Professional.

Essential Functions:

• Work collaboratively with Licensed Mental Health providers in delivering crisis intervention services to individuals served in the community
• Assist individuals served in skill building, goal setting, and in helping them build self-directed recovery tools
• Promote hope, personal responsibility, empowerment, education, and self-determination in all aspects of their work
• Serve as recovery agent by providing and advocating for effective recover-based services

Experience and Education:

• Past recipient of behavioral health services OR lived experience as the parent or caregiver of a child with complex needs inclusive of social, emotional, mental health, and/or substance use concerns, and/or involvement with child welfare or juvenile justice systems
• Actively engaged in a recovery/wellness program or providing past/present support to a child/youth with complex behavioral health needs in treatment services
• 24 years of age
• High school diploma or GED

Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer, Volunteers of America South Central Louisiana, Inc. considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital or veteran status, or any legally protected status. We will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities unless doing so would result in an undue hardship.

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