Inwood Community Services is seeking a dedicated and compassionate Certified Recovery Peer Advocate
(CRPA) to provide peer-based support to individuals navigating the recovery process. This role involves
offering one-on-one mentorship, advocacy, and case management services to individuals and their families,
grounded in person-centered, recovery-oriented practices.
The ideal candidate will demonstrate a strong understanding of harm reduction, trauma-informed care, and peer
support models, and will be committed to promoting recovery, resilience, and overall well-being.

What You’ll Do
As a Peer Specialist with Chelton Loft, you’ll be part of a small, dedicated team working with people living with mental illness. You’ll develop and coordinate opportunities for friendship, employment, housing, education, and access to medical and psychiatric services in a single, caring, and safe clubhouse environment. Clubhouse members and staff equally participate in identifying and empowering members’ strengths, skills, and interests. The staff offers a positive, supportive relationship that helps to build members’ self-esteem and encourages working toward an identified goal

The Peer Specialist uses their lived experience and unique perspective to contribute to treatment planning for each participant, remaining youth-driven and facilitating the team’s development and maintenance of a culture of respect and shared decision making. The Peer Specialist can provide an essential framework for highlighting the potential that each participant has for achieving a successful recovery trajectory.
In addition to attending team meetings, Peer Specialists work directly with other team members to provide support and assistance to program participants under supervision.

Manhattan newSTART support individuals diverted from the Manhattan Criminal Court who are at high risk for criminal recidivism. The Peer Specialist facilitates groups using standard curriculum, provides individual rehabilitation support to engage participants in brief intervention substance use services, cognitive behavioral groups, peer support, employment and vocational training needs in community resources. The Peer Specialist provides services within the framework of the core principles of recovery, self-determination and public safety.

Rapidly after release into the program, you will assist the Clinical team with conducting Supervision Introduction/Orientation meetings with new participants to review supervision conditions required under the supervision plan. Additionally, the Peer Specialist will work alongside a clinician, together they will assist program participants and focus on delivering proactive field-based direct services and limited coverage at court. The ideal candidate for this role will serve as a reliable support to the ISU team, have great flexibility, creativity and persistence among other dynamic qualities.

The Peer Specialist is a key member of the multidisciplinary FACT team, contributing a lived-experience perspective to support client engagement, recovery, and overall stability. Working closely with clinicians and case managers, the Peer Specialist helps strengthen service planning, foster trust with clients, and support coordination of care across providers. They also play a critical role in reinforcing consistent engagement and helping clients navigate challenges in real time.

The Peer Specialist is a key member of the multidisciplinary FACT team, contributing a lived-experience perspective to support client engagement, recovery, and overall stability. Working closely with clinicians and case managers, the Peer Specialist helps strengthen service planning, foster trust with clients, and support coordination of care across providers. They also play a critical role in reinforcing consistent engagement and helping clients navigate challenges in real time.

We are looking for a proactive employee to assist individuals enrolled in community-based services to achieve independence and maintain their health and safety.

Responsibilities:
Implement participants’ goals as written in Service Plans
Support participants by providing assistance with daily living skills, as needed

Promote advocacy with participants by seeking out services, promoting choice, and assisting in their understanding of rights and responsibilities

Encourage and support opportunities that promote natural connections within each participant’s community

We are looking for a proactive employee to provide an array of recovery support services for the participants of Unique Peerspectives in conjunction with maintaining program operations under the direction of the Program Manager.

Responsibilities:

Recognize the role of peers in the recovery process and appropriately share one’s experiences living with a mental health diagnosis to encourage others in their recovery

Actively engage peers in identifying barriers to recovery goals and developing strategies to overcome those barriers

New York Smart Center is hiring certified Youth Peer Advocates (YPA) to support youth and families across Brooklyn and NYC through community-based behavioral health services. YPAs will use their lived experience to engage youth, provide advocacy and skill-building, to help connect families to services and supports.

We are looking for actively credentialed YPAs who are ready to start working quickly. This role offers flexible scheduling, strong support, and opportunities for consistent caseload growth.

Requirements: Active NYS YPA Credential, aged between 18-30, and in NYC.
Call: 718-399-4870

Overview: The Social Care Navigator plays a key role in ensuring that the State’s Social Care Network program can reach and deliver health-related social needs (HRSN) services to eligible Medicaid members.

We seek an experienced Social Care Navigator to connect vulnerable Medicaid populations living in New York City to needed community-based social supports using an online referral technology platform to track and “close the loop” on referrals. The incumbent will be responsible for engaging with Medicaid members to assess their health-related social needs.

The Peer Trainer will develop and offer a series of workshops designed to help peer specialists learn about different specialties in peer work and practice the skills that different roles would require. This would help better prepare those who are interested in working with people who are experiencing mental health crises in a variety of settings such as: mobile crisis response teams; in hospitals; in crisis respite residences; street outreach; or on Intensive Mobile Treatment or Assertive Community Treatment Teams (IMT/ACT), and Intensive and Sustained Engagement Team (INSET).