Summary
Position type: Volunteer
Time commitment: Minimum 3 hours per week, maximum 15 hours per week
Reports to: Program Manager
An ARCNH Peer Recovery Coach’s role is to support individuals in recovery from Substance Use Disorder. A Peer Recovery Coach will serve as a role model, mentor, advocate and motivator to recovering individuals in order to help prevent set-backs and promote long-term recovery.
Qualifications
- 18 years of age or older
- Is familiar with the 11 towns of Souhegan Valley (Milford, Wilton, Amherst, Mont Vernon, Hollis, Brookline, Mason, Lyndeborough, Greenville, Temple, New Ipswich)
- Has completed the following courses and can provide documentation (or is working to complete):
- Recovery Coach Academy - 30 hours
- And/Or is working to complete the following:
- Ethical Considerations for Recovery Coaches - 16 hours
- Suicide Prevention - 6 hours
- HIV Prevention - 6 hours
- Motivational Interviewing - 6 hours
- ASAM Criteria - 8 hours
- Psychological First Aid - 6 hours
- First-Aid & CPR
- Identifies as in recovery from Substance Use Disorder and is willing to share details of personal recovery experience (preferred but not required)
- Has a working knowledge of a well known program of recovery such as any 12 step program, SMART Recovery, etc.
Responsibilities
- Provide one-on-one Recovery Coaching services in person or by phone for up to 5 program participants
- Assist program participants to identify their personal interests, goals, strengths and weaknesses regarding recovery
- Assist program participants develop their own plan for advancing their recovery
- Actively identify and support linkages to community resources (communities of recovery, educational, vocational, social, cultural, spiritual resources, mutual self- help groups, professional services, etc.) that support the program participants’s plan for recovery
- Identify barriers (internal and external) to full participation in community resources and develop strategies to overcome those barriers
- Encourage program participants to proactively request support on a regular basis, and make efforts to re-engage participants if they begin to distance themselves from the program
- Maintain thorough documentation of services provided to all program participants
- Participate in weekly Recovery Coach Program team meetings
- Maintain a current knowledge of community resources and pathways to recovery, researching new resources and pathways when necessary
- Attend ARCNH events whenever possible
