Peer Navigation
The unique power of peer workers is based on “shared lived experience.” Client Support Specialists have a unique ability to share strategies to promote health by acting as trusted educators, mentors for adopting healthy behavior, role models, and a source of social and emotional support. At the Alliance for Positive Health, Client Support Specialists work in all program services, providing additional support to our clients, many of whom have chronic illness, and a history of substance use, mental health issues, trauma, incarceration, and housing instability.
Client Support Specialists lived experiences include:
- Intimate Partner Violence
- Substance Use, Treatment, & Recovery
- HIV+
- Sexual, Physical, & Emotional Trauma
- Mental Health Issues & Treatment
- Sexual Assault
- Homelessness/Unstable Housing
- Family Substance Use
- Grief & Loss
- LGBT+ & Gender Issues
- Food Insecurity
- Negotiating Social Services & Medical Options
- And More
For more information please call: 518.434.4686
