The Jewish Board’s Community Behavioral Health programs provide compassionate, evidence-based care using a culturally competent, person-centered approach. The Peer Specialist engages clients through lived experience to build trust, support recovery, and overcome barriers to treatment and community integration. Responsibilities include individual support, advocacy, collaboration with providers, and progress tracking. Candidates must have lived experience with substance use, CRPA certification, and strong interpersonal, organizational, and computer skills.

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

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

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).

We are seeking a dedicated and compassionate Certified Peer Support – Behavioral Health/Recovery to join our team. The ideal candidate will play a crucial role in providing assistance and guidance to individuals facing various mental health challenges. This position requires a strong understanding of behavioral health, as well as effective communication skills, to support members in navigating their journeys toward improved well-being. As a Peer Lead organization, we believe in the power of lived experience and are dedicated to helping you turn yours into meaningful support for others.

JOB DEFINITION:

The Peer Specialist functions as a member of an interdisciplinary care coordinator team to assist with the outreach, support and coordination of care for those eligible for and/or served by the Forensic ACT Team, including chronically medically ill individuals with co-occurring mental illness and/or substance abuse disorders. Peer Specialist will serve as a role model and/or health coach for clients.

JOB DEFINITION: The Certified Peer Specialist functions as a member of the Intensive Crisis Stabilization Center to assist with the outreach, support and coordination of care for those eligible Nassau County residents Peer Specialist will serve as a role model and/or health coach for clients.

EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS: High School Diploma or equivalent required.
Peer certification (NYCPS, CRPA, or FPA) required.

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED: Relevant life experience required: personal experience living with a disability and/or social/emotional challenge.

The Career Coach provides personalized employment related support including job/internship preparation and search, job development, placement, and job retention coaching to HTH participants. Through a customized array of services delivered both on site and in the field the Career Coach provides support and skill development toward success and satisfaction as a trainee in the HTH classroom, on an internship, and while engaging and sustaining employment.

The Program Manager is responsible for the coordination of peer initiatives within the Agency, including those at Riverview Apartments and the Wishing Wellness Center.
Please see the full job description for details.

Work in collaboration with staff and members in the daily operation of BCS’s Greater Heights Clubhouse, to provide a safe, nurturing, and non-institutional setting for psychiatric rehabilitation that fosters independent living and greater participation in the community. The Clubhouse Generalist will work in partnership with staff and members in the daily operation of the clubhouse employment, education, advocacy and wellness programs. The Clubhouse Generalist is responsible for engaging Clubhouse members.

Peer Specialists use their “lived experience” to promote resiliency, recovery, wellness, and self-efficacy, and support the practice of youth-guided and family-driven approaches. The Peer Specialist position is community-based. Services are delivered in a variety of settings that meet the needs of the program participants.

The Peer Advocate works with the Program Coordinator in collaboration with the NYC Youth/Family Peer Advocate Training programs to introduce and motivate young adults with mental health and/or lived experience towards professional development.