Peer Support Training
PEER SUPPORT SPECIALIST TRAINING
CHANCE seeks to strengthen the community response to substance use disorder by providing training classes for individuals to become certified as Peer Support Specialists, a category of traditional health worker. As a Peer Support Specialist, you are able to find employment serving others struggling with addiction and help them navigate the resources available while offering support. Whether you are assisting them with health insurance, ID replacement, employment, clinical treatment, education, housing, or other things they need, you get to feel the satisfaction of guiding people down the path you have walked and showing them their own potential.
Our classes are currently on hold while we obtain our recertification.
Peer Support Specialists must have "lived experience" dealing with addiction in your own life or the life of a close family member. This experience is vital to helping others in a compassionate and mentoring way. You may pay for the class or seek scholarships through various non-profit groups.