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Originally Posted by Lizzie B
A Certified Peer Specialist is someone with a mental health diagnosis who applies for and is accepted into the CPS training program. It's a two week intensive study of the principles of mental health recovery. Following that they have to pass the CPS exam. Upon passing they apply for paid positions in Recovery Learning Communities, PACT Teams, state psychiatric hospitals and the like. Not all states have CPS training yet. Hopefully, they will soon.
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I see ok, here where I live, thats our "bridges" programs. and what you call a "Certified Peer Specialist" we call "peer counselors", and "peer facilitators", "peer mentors", "mentors"
we have many names for what you call CPS. each of our counties, towns and cities have their own vocabulary so to speak so its called by many names here.