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The Youth Peer Support Worker (YPSW) provides recovery-oriented, youth-centered peer support to youth 13-24 years accessing mental health and substance use services. Drawing from lived and living experience, the YPSW builds authentic and strengths-based relationships that foster hope, resilience, self-determination, and wellbeing.
Working within a referral-based model, the YPSW supports youth through one-to-one and group-based peer support, system navigation, mentorship, and connection to community resources. This role works collaboratively with interdisciplinary teams and community partners while upholding trauma-informed, culturally safe, anti-oppressive, and harm reduction practices.
· Provide one-to-one peer support to youth and young adults through emotional support, encouragement, goal setting, and practical problem solving.
· Build trusting, respectful, and youth-centered relationships that promote self-determination and independence.
· Support youth in navigating mental health, substance use, and community-based services and resources.
· Assist youth in developing self-advocacy skills and confidence in accessing services and supports.
· Facilitate group workshops and peer-based activities focused on wellness, recovery, skill building, and social connection.
· Use lived and living experience intentionally and ethically to promote hope, normalize experiences, and reduce isolation.
· Support youth in identifying strengths, protective factors, cultural connections, and meaningful goals.
· Participate in interdisciplinary team meetings and contribute lived-experience-informed perspectives to service planning.
· Maintain accurate and timely documentation, service records, and activity reporting in accordance with organizational standards.
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· Identify and escalate safety concerns, critical incidents, or changes in presentation according to established protocols.
· Maintain professional boundaries, confidentiality, and ethical practice in all aspects of peer support work.
· Participate in ongoing training, reflective practice, supervision, and professional development opportunities.
· Completion of a two-year diploma in a related human or social services field, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and lived/living experience.
· Minimum one (1) year of experience in peer support, mental health, and/or substance use programming.
· Lived and living experience with mental health and/or substance use challenges, with the ability to use this experience appropriately within a peer support role.
· Regular travel throughout the assigned Fraser Health region is required.
· Work may take place in community, clinical, and partner organization settings.
· Flexible scheduling, including occasional evenings, may be required based on program needs.
Nonprofit social-service agency serving children, families, adults, and seniors in Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows.
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