Jy’Aire Smith-Pennick suffered multiple traumas before age 18. He masked his pain with Percocet, weed and drug-selling. Now, at a Pennsylvania prison with the right programs, he’s finally starting to heal.
Does Official Recognition of Peers Undermine Their Work?
Peer specialists’ role under Medicaid-managed care: Concerns voiced by a senior peer specialist and recovery advocate working in New Mexico.
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Peer support specialists are individuals who have had experience with emotional distress, trauma, or other emotional challenges and have been trained to assist others experiencing emotional distress. Peers’ interventions improve self-esteem and confidence, the ability to bring about changes, and the feeling that treatment is addressing the real needs of individuals.
In the past few years, peer support specialists have been officially recognized as essential figures by Medicaid, managed care organizations, and other public health institutions for the delivery of integrated and coordinated behavioral health services.
acerbone@adirondackdailyenterprise.com SARANAC LAKE A proposed program to embed a therapist in the Saranac Lake Police Department to assist on mental health and addiction calls has received state approval. At a public hearing Thursday, organizers from the village, county and Citizen Advocates shared more details about when, where and how the therapist would work. The Counselor and Law Enforcement Partnership pilot project would be a collaborative initiative between Citizen Advocates, the Saranac Lake Police Department and Franklin County Community Services to shift some mental health-, homelessness- and substance abuse-related responsibilities from the police onto social work professionals. This is one of the proposals made by the village’s police review committee, which organized last year after an executive order from Gov. Andrew Cuomo mandated every police department review its policies.
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