01.
Peer Support. Peer Support
is a helping relationship between mental health clients and Certified Peer
Support Specialists. The primary responsibility of Certified Peer Support
Specialists is to help those they serve achieve self-directed recovery. They
believe that every individual has strengths and the ability to learn and grow.
(3-17-22)
02.
Certified Peer
Support Specialists. Certified peer support specialists are committed to
providing and advocating for effective recovery-based services for the people
they serve in order for these individuals to meet their own needs, desires, and
goals. (3-17-22)
03.
Certified Peer Support Specialist Professional Conduct. A
certified peer support specialist must: (3-17-22)
a. Seek to role-model recovery;
(3-17-22)
b. Respect the rights and
dignity of those they serve; (3-17-22)
c. Respect the privacy and confidentiality of
those they serve; (3-17-22)
d.
Openly share their personal recovery stories with colleagues and those they
serve; (3-17-22)
e. Maintain high
standards of personal conduct and conduct themselves in a manner that fosters
their own recovery; (3-17-22)
f.
Never intimidate, threaten, or harass those they serve; never use undue
influence, physical force, or verbal abuse with those they serve; and never
make unwarranted promises of benefits to those they serve; (3-17-22)
g. Not practice, condone, facilitate, or
collaborate with any form of discrimination on the basis of ethnicity, race,
gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, national origin, marital status,
political belief, or mental or physical disability; (3-17-22)
h. Never engage in sexual/intimate activities
with colleagues or those they serve; (3-17-22)
i. Not accept gifts of significant value from
those they serve; (3-17-22)
j. Not
enter into dual relationships or commitments that conflict with the interests
of those they serve; (3-17-22)
k.
Not abuse substances under any circumstances while they are employed as a
Certified Peer Support Specialist; (3-17-22)
l. Work to equalize the power differentials
that may occur in the peer support/client relationship; (3-17-22)
m. Ensure that all information and
documentation provided is true and accurate to the best of their knowledge;
(3-17-22)
n. Keep current with
emerging knowledge relevant to recovery, and openly share this knowledge with
their colleagues and those they serve; (3-17-22)
o. Remain aware of their skills and
limitations, and do not provide services or represent themselves as expert in
areas for which they do not have sufficient knowledge or expertise; and
(3-17-22)
p. Not hold a clinical
role nor offer primary treatment for mental health issues, prescribe medicine,
act as a legal representative or provide legal advice, participate in the
determination of competence, or provide counseling, therapy, social work, drug
testing, or diagnosis of symptoms and disorders. (3-17-22)
04.
Ethics Training. A certified
peer support specialist must complete ethics training at least once per year,
and maintain personal documentation of completed ethics training.
(3-17-22)
05.
Comply with
Code of Ethics. A certified peer support specialist must understand and
comply with these rules and Idaho's Certified Peer Support Specialists Code of
Ethics and Professional Conduct. (3-17-22)
