Mental Health Peer Specialist - HOST
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About The Position
DESC (Downtown Emergency Service Center) is a nonprofit organization working to help people with the complex needs of homelessness, substance use disorders, and serious mental illness achieve their highest potential for health and well-being through comprehensive services, treatment, and housing. Our vision is a community where no person is abandoned, ignored, or experiencing homelessness. As the region's leading provider of services to multiply disabled adults who have experienced chronic homelessness, DESC serves almost 3,000 people each day. Our integrated service model is designed to help people secure and maintain appropriate, safe, and affordable housing. DESC is recognized nationally and regionally as an innovator in developing solutions to homelessness. The HOST Mental Health Peer Specialist uses their lived experience of recovery from mental illness and/or substance use and addiction, plus skills learned in formal training, to assertively engage HOST clients into intensive services. This position requires a high degree of coordination and collaboration with other DESC programs as well as outside agencies. A condition of employment is completion of the Washington State Peer Counselor Training and obtaining certification within one year of employment at DESC.
