Supporting • With permission, share an aspect of your recovery story (only necessary details, focused on peer needs and the wellness story). • Continue careful listening and regular reflection. • Provide resources, if requested. o Use Ask-Share-Ask to provide information (Section 7). o Focus on peer needs. o If needed, use warm hand-off procedure where the peer specialist facilitates the contact to the referral with the peer present to support the peer in the initial contact. • Summarize meeting. Advocating • Engage in information-gathering, research, and exploring with open questions to understand the situations where advocacy is needed more fully. • Advocate alongside the peer rather than taking the lead as the certified peer specialist (co-advocacy). • Center an informed-consent approach when co-advocating (exploring advantages and disadvantages of advocacy strategies). • Explore the impacts of culture, power, and privilege as well as influential people or decision-makers who may impact advocacy efforts. • Continue to connect with the peer throughout the advocating process (connecting is the first process of certified peer specialist practice and advocating can strengthen this connection). • Explore the barriers the person faces and what they want to see changed. • Expand on the planning process to also address those barriers through advocating.
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