Job Description
Peer navigators use lived experiences to guide individuals from homelessness to housing, identifying wellness goals, overcoming barriers, and accessing resources for stability.
Colorado Village Collaborative fosters housing stability in Denver by integrating behavioral health, recovery, and community supports through person-centered services for at-risk populations.
Navigators provide peer support drawing from recoveries of 2+ years, engage non-judgmentally to co-create action plans, reduce stigma, build empowerment, facilitate connections to counseling via MAT, recovery programs, mental health resources using HMIS, respond to crises with trauma-informed approaches, connect to networks reducing isolation, support routines and social skills in communities.
The part-time position offers 29 hours weekly with some nights and weekends at $25 per hour plus a $40 monthly cell phone stipend and mileage reimbursement.
Responsibilities
- Provide person-centered support using lived experience to build trust
- Support goal identification, navigate services, co-create plans for wellness
- Help understand stigma, strategies to reduce it, build empowerment
- Document interactions, progress, referrals in HMIS confidentiality
- Accompany during appointments, advocate for complex systems access
- Promote independent living, community amenities, healthy routines
- Identify crisis signs, respond trauma-responsively, connect to resources
- Support rebuilding social networks, reducing isolation
- Introduce to spaces, peer groups for belonging
- Assist in developing relationships with natural supports
- Attend meetings, focus on core competencies
- Address client issues in meetings
- Provide customer service, communicate professionally
- Collaborate in multidisciplinary teams valuing client experiences
- Follow related policies, participate in coverage
Requirements
- High School Diploma or equivalent
- Prior or current mental health, substance use, or homeless services recipient
- Two years or more in recovery preferred
- One year volunteer or paid experience preferred
- Peer Support Specialist training via Colorado credential within 6 months
- At least one year successfully housed
- Experience with computerized equipment and telephones
- Reliable transportation preferred
- Cell phone for CVC applications