Contract to potential hire!
Location: Lawrence, MA
Rate: $24-$25/hr DOE
Schedule: 32HPW; Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 8:30am-5:00pm
Description:
- Provide emotional and social support to individuals in recovery.
- Share lived experiences and use coaching and mentoring techniques to support the assigned individual(s).
- Help assigned individual(s) in making positive life changes and developing skills to facilitate recovery.
- Discuss with assigned individual(s) new strategies for developing recovery-supportive friendships: reconnecting or improving family relationships; and identifying and using recovery-community services.
- Act as a role model in an open and transparent manner.
- Use the peer relationship, when appropriate, to assist assigned individual(s) with motivation.
- Facilitate connections to primary, dental, and specialty medical care as well as social services (e.g. applying for benefits and navigating relevant systems such as criminal justice and child welfare.
Requirements:
- High School Diploma
- 2 years’ experience in a similar or related field preferred.
- Bilingual in English and Spanish preferred.
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