Become a Peer Support

Become a Peer Support

Peer support starts with lived experience. Maybe you’ve navigated mental health challenges, substance use recovery, foster care, the juvenile justice system, family stress, school struggles, or another hard part of life. Maybe you know what it feels like to need someone who understands without making you explain every piece of it. That experience matters here.

As a Peer Support Specialist, you can use what you’ve lived through to support another young person as they figure out what healing, growth, connection, and stability can look like for them.

What This Role Is

As a Peer Support Specialist, you’re paired with young people navigating something you understand firsthand. You’re not there to fix, diagnose, or direct. You’re there to listen, to share your own story when it helps, and to walk alongside someone as they find their own way forward.

You might also help facilitate drop-in spaces, support workshops, or simply be a steady, familiar presence for young people looking for someone who understands without needing it explained.

This work is non-clinical. What you’re offering isn’t therapy. It’s mutuality, shared experience, and a relationship built on trust rather than authority.

This role may be a good fit if you:

• Are between the ages of 18 and 26
• Have lived or living experience with mental health challenges, substance use, recovery, foster care, juvenile justice, or other life experiences that shaped you
• Want to use your experience to support other young people
• Can listen with openness and without judgment
• Believe young people should have a voice in their own support
• Are open to learning, growing, and being supported in the work

Training and support are part of the role. You will have people around you as you learn how to bring your lived experience into this work with care, boundaries, and confidence.