Specifications include, but are not limited to: 1. Integrate recovery and wellness supports in a criminal justice setting by providing non-clinical, strength-based peer support to focus on the psycho-social, behavioral, and functional needs of the ACTC drug participants. This includes helping the participants recognize their personal strengths; helping the participants set personal, financial, career, steppingstone, and short-term/long-term goals; and helping the participants establish, develop, and maintain healthy familial, individual, and peer relationships. 2. Assist participants with transportation needs, such as Medicaid-funded transportation and public transportation; or escort/provide transportation to participants, as needed, to court appearances, community-based services, program-related appointments, and/or sober support meetings. 3. Meet with clients in person, at recovery centers, at the Albany County courthouse, and at participants’ outpatient program. The applicant should require the peer recovery advocate to meet with clients wherever they are housed, including community residences, homeless shelters, jail, hospital, and wherever they require services. The applicant should also require the peer recovery advocate to maintain cell phone and email availability and have flexible hours to tend to participants in the evenings and weekends, where practical. 4. Link participants to community connections/resources, such as financial assistance, educational, religious/cultural, and healthcare organizations; youth services; head start and substance abuse treatment programs; mental health services; and food pantries. 5. Refer participants to sober social activities (e.g., cultural and recreational events, social and community gatherings, and volunteer opportunities) and implement, conduct, and/or organize recovery-oriented activities.
