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Job Details Job Location Wenatchee - Wenatchee, WA Position Type Full Time   Salary Range $22.26 - $27.56 Hourly Travel Percentage Road Warrior Description Position Summary: Certified Peer Counselors are individuals with personal history as a youth or as a parent of a youth who has been a recipient of behavioral health, child welfare, complex medical coordination or juvenile justice services who use that personal experience to collaborate, provide support and help facilitate services for youth and their families. Working as a member of a team, the Peer Counselor helps a youth or parent voice their own perspective and assure that other team members are able to understand their perspective and use that perspective in treatment planning. Applicants must have first person experience in accessing system services and be prepared to disclose their personal experiences with youth, parents and others. Responsibilities: Primary Responsibilities Provide direct support to the treatment team assessing and engaging the child/youth and family in safety planning and prevention activities. Working with the treatment team for high-risk, clinically complex circumstances, team will determine the most appropriate safety crisis and treatment responses and utilize a Peer to support youth and family engagement in service planning to address those safety, crisis and treatment needs. Participate in child and family teams and in the assessment process with referred youth and parents. Relate personal experience to assist in building trust with the family and increasing hopeful engagement in services. Assess and review the youth and parent's ability to communicate their position, preferences, strengths and needs. Find ways to relate personal experience to the experience of the youth or parent Review personal history receiving services and disclose common elements to youth and parent being served. Reassure and communicate the recovery process to youth and parents, that "they are not in this alone." Reach agreement with youth and parents about their functional strengths, passions and activities that will contribute to their healing and support. Assist in communicating that clinical information to the treatment team and through session documentation to Medicaid funders. As an active participant in the clinical treatment team, review and analyze the safety/crisis and treatment plan, make suggestions for improvement/ modifications that would improve youth and parent participation. Work in partnership with and under the direction of the Clinician to provide peer support for youth and their families identified in crisis. Demonstrate the ability to work in partnership with members of a clinical Team, establishing a strong working relationship to support coordination of care between team members. Provide community support by identifying and connecting youth and their families to primary care, behavioral health, community and natural resources that benefit the consumer and family. Provide care coordination and case management services including: Coach in self-management and stabilization techniques under the direction of the Clinician. Identify natural supports, community resources, support groups and engage the youth and their family with those supports. Encourage engagement of community resources and natural supports. Attend all required individual supervision, group supervision, all staff meetings, clinical training, community meetings, and other trainings asked to attend by management and supervisor Promote Catholic Charities programs while meeting with other resources while in the community Attendance and completion of Mental Health Peer Certified Counselor Training HIPAA Responsible for upholding a culture of privacy