BHP - Peer Youth/CPS-Y
Unison Behavioral Health, Waycross, GA, United States
Job Description
Posted Tuesday, April 21, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Salary: $16.06-$21.63/hour (WILL VERY BY EDUCATION LEVEL)
Youth Certified Peer Specialist (CPS-Y) – A
individual who is a young adult, age 18 through 26, with experience living with a mental health or substance use condition or both, who has received behavioral health services as a youth, is willing and able to self‑identify as a person living with a behavioral health condition and is prepared to use that experience in helping other youth/young adults living with similar behavioral health conditions.
The CPS-Y offers emotional support, shares knowledge, works with individuals to identify tools of wellness, resiliency and recovery available for everyday life, provides practical assistance, and connects people with resources, opportunities and communities of support. Youth CPSs are
not
counselors, caseworkers or clinicians. Every candidate is required to take and pass a test to get certified as a CPS-Y.
Job Responsibilities
Will work 40 hours weekly.
Competencies
Peer specialist must be living in recovery and able to publicly describe and model to others the things that they learned that helped them to wellness.
Describe what you have had to overcome to get where you are today.
Describe some of the things that you do daily to keep yourself on the path of recovery.
Describe what your diagnosis means, how it impacted your life and what things you did to change that.
Help others understand that recovery is possible.
Required Minimum Qualifications
Be 18-26 years of age (valid Georgia ID); have a high school diploma or GED; and
Have a mental health (MH) condition, substance use disorder (SUD), or a co‑occurring diagnosis; and a strong desire to identify yourself as a person living with a mental illness or substance use diagnosis; and
Be able/willing to actively seek and manage your own appropriate care; and
Be able to share their own personal story in a safe and appropriate way.
Must be well grounded in recovery wellness.
One year between diagnosis and application to training.
If the individual has a substance use condition, there must be one year continuous abstinent from substance use.
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Posted Tuesday, April 21, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Salary: $16.06-$21.63/hour (WILL VERY BY EDUCATION LEVEL)
Youth Certified Peer Specialist (CPS-Y) – A
individual who is a young adult, age 18 through 26, with experience living with a mental health or substance use condition or both, who has received behavioral health services as a youth, is willing and able to self‑identify as a person living with a behavioral health condition and is prepared to use that experience in helping other youth/young adults living with similar behavioral health conditions.
The CPS-Y offers emotional support, shares knowledge, works with individuals to identify tools of wellness, resiliency and recovery available for everyday life, provides practical assistance, and connects people with resources, opportunities and communities of support. Youth CPSs are
not
counselors, caseworkers or clinicians. Every candidate is required to take and pass a test to get certified as a CPS-Y.
Job Responsibilities
Will work 40 hours weekly.
Competencies
Peer specialist must be living in recovery and able to publicly describe and model to others the things that they learned that helped them to wellness.
Describe what you have had to overcome to get where you are today.
Describe some of the things that you do daily to keep yourself on the path of recovery.
Describe what your diagnosis means, how it impacted your life and what things you did to change that.
Help others understand that recovery is possible.
Required Minimum Qualifications
Be 18-26 years of age (valid Georgia ID); have a high school diploma or GED; and
Have a mental health (MH) condition, substance use disorder (SUD), or a co‑occurring diagnosis; and a strong desire to identify yourself as a person living with a mental illness or substance use diagnosis; and
Be able/willing to actively seek and manage your own appropriate care; and
Be able to share their own personal story in a safe and appropriate way.
Must be well grounded in recovery wellness.
One year between diagnosis and application to training.
If the individual has a substance use condition, there must be one year continuous abstinent from substance use.
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