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Services are provided in the home, community, and office settings. The Peer Support Specialist fosters hope, self-advocacy, and empowerment while connecting individuals to community resources and supports. Duties include:\nEngage the young adults in a respectful, strength-based, and culturally competent manner. Build trusting, supportive relationships with clients using a strength-based, recovery-oriented, trauma-informed approach.\nAssist clients in identifying strengths, needs, goals, and barriers related to independent living, education, employment, social engagement, housing stability, wellness, and recovery. Collaborate with clients to develop and implement individualized support plans and recovery goals.\nProvide peer mentoring, encouragement, advocacy, and wellness coaching to promote self-sufficiency and community integration.\nSupport clients in developing daily living skills, including budgeting, medication management, personal wellness, household management, transportation, and community participation. Provide support and counseling focusing on psychoeducation, skill building, rehabilitative counseling, money management, medication management, and work or school readiness to individuals. \nAssist clients in accessing and utilizing community resources, including behavioral health, medical, educational, vocational, housing, legal, and social service programs. Assess needs related to food, clothing, household items, transportation, and other basic necessities and facilitate access to available resources.\nConduct home, community, and office-based visits, including apartment and wellness checks as appropriate.\nFacilitate or co-facilitate psychoeducational and skill-building groups that promote recovery, independent living, and community participation.\nIdentify potential crisis situations and assist clients in developing crisis prevention and response plans. Provide on-call crisis intervention services on a rotating schedule. Always act to ensure client’s safety, readily assesses needs, provide support and interventions as needed and secure crisis interventions in urgent situations. \nMaintain an Electronic Case Record for each client on the assigned caseload. Complete all paperwork in a professional, accurate and timely manner.\nMohawk's programs and offices are multi-level with stairs only. All employees must be able to travel to all levels of the facility in a safe and reasonable time frame. Client services in the community include visits to clients’ apartments which can be on the second and third floors. \nProvide transportation to clients when necessary, using agency vehicles. Employees must have access and be willing to use their personal vehicle to attend client/member meetings in the community and meetings outside the office/program. \nRequirements\nSkills/Qualifications for the Peer Specialist include:\nCertified Recovery Peer Advocate (CRPA) or Certified Peer Specialist (CPS). Provisional certification will be considered if in the process of obtaining permanent certification.\nMinimum of two years of human services experience preferred, including experience working with young adults.\nStrong interpersonal, communication, advocacy, and relationship-building skills.\nExcellent organizational, documentation, problem-solving, and time-management abilities.\nValid and insurable NYS driver's license. Must have a personal vehicle to use for business purposes.\nBenefits\nSalary and Benefits of the Peer Specialist: \n$22.83/hour: $47,486.40/annual equivalent. 40 hours per week.\nOn-call on a rotation basis. $210/week on-call stipend.\nExcellent benefits, staff training, generous paid time off, and a 30-minute paid lunch. \nSupportive work environment.\nMake A Difference Helping Others in a Workplace Where You Matter\nProviding A Culture of Caring\nPeer Specialist Schedule:\nMonday- 8:30am-4:30pm\nTuesday -12:00pm-8:00pm\nWednesday- 8:30am-4:30pm\nThursday 12:00pm-8:00pm\nFriday 8:30am-4:30pm\nSaturday and Sunday Off\nVisit our website at www.mohawkopportunities.org.\nVisit us on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn!\nEqual Opportunity Employer\nAll offers for employment will be contingent upon the candidate having successfully completed background checks.\nMohawk Opportunities is committed to helping individuals living with mental illness achieve stable community living and independence. Our goal is to provide services and supports that assist individuals living with mental illness to thrive and achieve their full potential for a happy, independent life in the community of their choice.\nIf you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify the Sr. Director of Human Resources at 518-836-3980.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5093,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Career Services","Nonprofits & Foundations"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-13T02:44:18Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":19,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.42,"p_room":0.45,"age_days":56,"expected_fill_days":30,"reasons":["conf:2","win:tail"],"computed_at":"2026-10-29T05:49:05Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":44000,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/mohawkopportunities-peer-support-specialist","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/mohawkopportunities-peer-support-specialist.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-29T05:54:14Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":9085,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-30T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":679708},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=679708"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fmohawkopportunities-peer-support-specialist"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fmohawkopportunities-peer-support-specialist"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fmohawkopportunities-peer-support-specialist"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/mohawkopportunities-peer-support-specialist\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fmohawkopportunities-peer-support-specialist"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":849533}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"mohawkopportunities.org","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":849533},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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