three sets of services (community living support, peer support, and supported employment), Community Recovery Services is Wisconsin’s most intensive community-based program for people with mental health challenges. Individuals who receive Community Recovery Services mostly reside in group homes or adult family home settings. Information can be found at https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/crs/index.htm Other community-based or professional services • Certified peer specialists offer peer support to people navigating substance use and mental health challenges. Whether a certified peer specialist works in a peer-run organization with a team entirely composed of other peer support professionals or as part of a treatment or recovery team including clinicians and other service providers, they are active participants and colleagues who bring their own valuable expertise and skill sets. . A certified peer specialist is a person who has their own lived experience of mental health and substance use challenges with formal training and certification in the peer specialist model of mental health and substance use peer support. They use their unique set of experiences and recovery in combination with skills training, including continuing education, to support people living with mental health and substance use challenges. • Certified parent peer specialists are people who have lived experience raising youth experiencing mental health and substance use challenges. This person combines their lived experience with formal skills training to support others in a caregiver role. Certified parent peer specialists use their own family’s experience as a tool for support and connection. They support the families they serve in recognizing and fostering their own resiliency and provide information about resources relevant to the family’s needs. At the heart of the work of certified parent peer specialists is facilitating family-directed services, including goal setting, and fostering strong communication networks between families and service providers. • Recovery coaches offer a form of strengths-based, healing-centered support for people in or seeking recovery from a substance use concern. Like life and business coaching, recovery coaching is a type of partnership where the person in or seeking recovery self-directs their recovery while the coach provides their expertise in supporting successful change. Recovery coaching focuses on achieving any goals important to the individual. The coach asks questions and offers suggestions to help the client begin to take the lead in addressing their recovery needs. Recovery coaching focuses on honoring values and making principle-based decisions, creating a clear plan of action, and using
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