Peer Support Specialist (Opioid Outreach and Supportive Services) (11150)

Peer Support Specialist (OOSS)

📍 Main Campus
💰 $17.00-$19.00 Hourly
🕒 Full-Time | Shift: 9:00AM-5:00PM | Monday–Friday

Building Hope. Connecting Communities. Saving Lives.

About Us

CarePoint Response, Inc (CPR, formerly BCRI) is a nationally recognized nonprofit and Baltimore’s only comprehensive crisis response system. Since 1992, CPR has provided timely, community-based care for individuals and families experiencing mental health and substance use challenges.

Our mission is to deliver effective behavioral health crisis services and treatment in the least restrictive environment — meeting people where they are, when they need it most.

The Opportunity

We’re seeking a dedicated professional to work alongside EMS in responding to substance use crises and overdoses throughout Baltimore City. In this role, you will provide brief crisis intervention, connect individuals to treatment and support services, and help them create plans that promote recovery.

You will collaborate closely with EMS, CPR staff, and community partners, ensuring individuals receive timely referrals, resources, and follow-up support. This position plays an important role in empowering people to take steps toward stability and long-term wellness.

What You’ll Do

• Work collaboratively with members of EMS and other members of CPR’s team to provide support and resources to individuals experience substance use issues or homelessness.
• Work with individuals in a substance use crisis to develop a crisis plan, provide linkage to care and introduce other crisis planning tools to the individual as needed.
• Respond alongside EMS to overdoses in Baltimore city to provide linkage and connection to services.
• Work with individuals in crisis to assist with continuity of care by giving them mental health, addiction, peer recovery support and other needed resources.
• Build relationships with addiction, mental health and homeless outreach providers, peer recovery support and other community resources
• Performs timely and accurate documentation of all clinical and client-related information
• Maintains professional open, effective, and appropriate communication with clients, CPR staff, management, outside agencies and the public
• Empower participants to become self-advocates for their own recovery/wellness
• Maintains professional boundaries with clients, staff and other outside agencies
• Works with all clients from a strengths-based perspective, providing support and encouragement as they move forward in their recovery
• Other duties as required