Peer Support Specialist

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Dec 6, 2023

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Peer Support Specialist/Recovery Coach What is a Peer Support Specialist/ Recovery Coach? • Peer recovery coaches (PRCs)/ Peer support specialist are individuals with lived substance use experience and mental health difficulties, who have gone through the recovery process for at least two years themselves, which offers them a unique ability to empathically understand individual’s going through similar situations. They offer non- clinical assistance which can be integrated into the outpatient SUD management team to support individuals with long term recovery. • The way this support is offered varies trust by trust, it involves the PSS/PRC working alongside service-users to help develop an understanding of what recovery looks like including developing coping strategies, staying well plans and signposting to community services. They involve the process of giving and receiving non-clinical assistance to support long-term recovery from substance use disorders.

Peer Support Specialist/Recovery Coach How effective are Peer Support Specialist/Recovery Coaches? • Peer recovery support is effective in helping people transition from one stage of the care continuum to another by addressing some of the barriers that people face. The available evidence shows that PRSS are especially effective in the initial stage of recovery priming, by increasing people’s risk perception of negative consequences of harmful substance use, their readiness and motivation for change, their recovery capital, and ultimately by helping them take the first steps to starting treatment (Stanojlovic and Davidson, 2021). • Peer recovery coaches can support patients’ engagement with outpatient and preventative services, which in turn, may contribute to a reduction in the likelihood of costly, preventable acute care utilization (Magidson, Regan, Powell, Jack, Herman, Zaro, Kane, and Wakeman, 2021). • Magidson, Regan, Powell, Jack, Herman, Zaro, Kane, and Wakerman (2021) and Myrick and Vecchio (2016) each found that Peer Services can increase patient engagement in outpatient treatment and preventive services.

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