Essential Job Functions: • Outreach/Engagement/Bridge Building: Helping to facilitate engagement by forging strong connections with participants and families residing in Harlem/Bronx and surrounding communities. Undertaking outreach activities designed to promote community awareness of S:US services, encouraging help- seeking, and at times serving as a bridge between treatment team members and participants when they experience ambivalence about substance use treatment (including Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) and outpatient Substance Use Disorder (SUD) treatment). • Combating Overdose: Peer Specialists will be certified to train and distribute Naloxone kits to...

Care CoordinationBrooklyn, New York    The Peer Specialist will perform a wide variety of tasks related to the care, support, education, socialization, habilitation, recovery/healing, safety, security, and support of adults diagnosed with mental illness and substance abuse disorder who are transitioning to various levels of independent housing setting. These tasks focus on supporting, instructing, and assisting recipients of services to develop the skills needed to live, work, and...