Peer Wellness Mentor Level 1
Role Overview
The Peer Wellness Mentor delivers peer-led, recovery-oriented services within the CORE Community Wellness Centers operated in partnership with Turning Point Community Programs (TPCP).
This role provides engagement, groups, navigation, and community linkage for adults and families to access CORE wellness support.
Success in this position requires consistent documentation, strong boundaries, and a high-accountability approach to serving participants with dignity and respect.
Key Skills for This Role
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Required Qualifications
- Peer Certification
- Lived experience related to behavioral health and recovery, or immediate family lived
- experience, consistent with peer support values.
- Minimum 6 months experience in mental health, human services, outreach, or peer support
- settings, paid or volunteer.
- Ability to complete peer certification or maintain peer certification; must be on track to
- complete certification within 90 days of hire if not already certified.
- Strong interpersonal communication skills and ability to maintain professional boundaries.
- Ability to use email, basic word processing, and data entry systems; ability to learn EHR and
- related platforms.
- Ability to work in community settings and respond calmly in crisis situations.
- Valid California driver license and proof of auto insurance (required due to community
- outreach and travel between sites).
- Successful completion of DOJ background check.
Preferred Qualifications
- WRAP facilitation (if certified as a facilitator), Motivational Interviewing, Nonviolent
- Communication, or similar recovery-oriented training.
- Bilingual or bicultural skills relevant to the communities served.
- Work Environment
- Work is performed in Community Wellness Centers, community locations, and occasional
- office settings.
- Regular interaction with individuals experiencing mental health crises, substance use
- challenges, and homelessness.
- May be exposed to stressful and unpredictable situations; require professional conduct and
- de-escalation skills.
- Travel between sites may be required.
- Physical Requirements
- Ability to sit, stand, and walk for extended periods; ability to lift up-to 30 pounds.
- Ability to safely navigate stairs and community environments during outreach.
About Sustainable Wellness Solutions
Peer-run California nonprofit providing mental-health advocacy, housing, education, and peer-support services for people facing behavioral-health challenges.
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