Families Together Positions
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Statewide Peer Support Positions
We can accept job ads from NYSOMH licensed, designated or funded program providing Medicaid reimbursable services of family peer support or youth peer support.
Email YPACredential@ftnys.org or FPACredential@ftnys.org with a link to your published job ad or detailed description, application instructions (including deadline and contact person), website link and logo.
Western Region
Mental Health Advocates of Western NY hiring Youth Peer Advocate!
Youth Peer Advocates will use their lived experience and recovery journey to inspire and empower young people navigating mental health and/or substance use challenges. This role focuses on promoting wellness, resiliency, and recovery through peer-led support, goal development, advocacy, and connection to community resources. The Youth Peer Advocate serves as a role model, mentor, and support system for adolescents and transition-age youth while supporting MHA’s Mission.
Hillside hiring Family Peer Advocates, Auburn and Rochester!
Hillside Family Advocate’s help parents navigate systems more effectively, learn from the experiences of other families, decrease isolation, and gain hope, ideas, and information. The Family Peer Advocate position has a unique responsibility for engaging, coaching and empowering families, and also for ensuring that the family’s voice and family/community culture is respected.
Visit https://www.hillside.com/work and type key word “Family Advocate” in the search box to complete an application! A cover letter detailing your ‘lived experience’ navigating child serving systems for the benefit of your child(ren) is required.
Mental Health Association of Rochester hiring Family Peer Advocates!
Are you a parent or caregiver with lived experience raising a child with emotional, behavioral, mental health, or developmental challenges? Are you passionate about using that experience to support and empower other families? The Mental Health Association (MHA) is looking for compassionate, dedicated, credentialed Family Peer Advocates (full-time -35 hours/week and part-time – 20 hours/week) to join our team and make a difference in the lives of families navigating the mental health system.
As a Family Peer Advocate, you’ll provide one-on-one support to families and caregivers, helping them build skills, access resources, and become strong advocates for their children in home, school, and community settings.
Recovery Options Made Easy hiring Youth and Family Peer positions!
Recovery Options Made Easy, Inc., is a not-for-profit supported housing and community support services agency. As a peer-run organization, Recovery Options was developed and is operated by those who have lived through the recovery process. We’ve tailored our programs and services to directly benefit participants in mental health services. ROME is committed to decreasing stigma by increasing awareness of mental health and substance use through information, education, and advocacy. Our efforts are focused on participants, family members, community members, and mental health professionals in several counties across New York.
Explore Career Options at Career Opportunities – Recovery Options Made Easy careers
New Directions Youth & Family Services hiring multiple positions!
Family Peer Advocate (full-time)
The Family Peer Advocate will provide an array of formal and informal services and supports provided to families caring for/raising a child who is experiencing social, emotional, developmental, medical, substance use, and/or behavioral challenges in their home, school, placement, and/or community. The service is needed to allow the child the best opportunity to remain in the community. Activities included must be intended to achieve the identified goals or objectives as set forth in the child/youth’s treatment plan.
Youth Peer Advocate (part-time)
The Youth Peer Advocate works directly with youth experiencing emotional, behavioral, or co-occurring challenges to build confidence, develop skills, and connect with needed supports. This role involves mentoring, advocacy, and co-leading peer support groups, empowering youth to engage in their own growth and recovery journey. Candidates must be between 18–30 years old and have personal, lived experience with these challenges.
Apply direct at https://www.fosteringgood.org/employment
Compeer Rochester hiring Peer and Youth Engagement Specialist positions!
The Youth Engagement Specialist will work with individuals ages 5 to 21 with behavioral health challenges to reduce interpersonal/environmental barriers and improve functioning and integration within their family and community. Services are delivered face to face in 1:1 and group settings using person-centered, recovery-oriented interventions.
This person will serve as a peer mentor to youth, adults, and families with mental health and/or substance use disorders. The Peer Specialist will work with referred individuals on life skills, socialization, and other areas as needed to assist in mental health and substance use recovery.
Apply directly at https://www.compeerrochester.org/join-our-team
Hudson River Region
LaSalle School Albany hiring Youth Peer Advocate!
The Youth Peer Advocate (YPA) is a full-time, 37.5-hour a week, non-exempt, and hourly position who plays a key role in LaSalle School’s Youth Safe Spaces Program, a drop-in initiative serving approximately 500 youth and young adults annually, ages 12–24. This program supports individuals experiencing social, emotional, developmental, behavioral, medical, and/or substance use challenges by providing a welcoming, barrier-free environment where they can access essential needs and holistic support. YPAs will use their lived experience to engage participants, model resilience, and foster empowerment through mentorship, outreach, and co-facilitation of youth-centered programming.
Greater Mental Health of New York hiring Family and Youth Peer Advocates!
Join us at Greater Mental Health of New York, where our mission is to promote mental wellness through advocacy, community education, and direct services. We empower individuals and families on their unique journeys to recovery, honoring their rights to self-determination, choice, and collaboration. With evidence-based practices and a focus on trauma-responsive care, our dedicated team provides comprehensive services to thousands and fosters independence and resilience within our community. If you’re passionate about making a difference in mental health and creating brighter futures for individuals and families throughout the Lower Hudson Valley region, apply today!
Northern Rivers hiring Family and Youth Peer Advocates!
You can’t change the past of Northern Rivers clients, but you can help them rewrite the future. As part of the Northern Rivers team, you’ll help children, adults, and families overcome adversity. Take on life’s challenges. Achieve their potential. And have brighter tomorrows. Come grow your career at Northern Rivers. Because the life you change may be your own.
Rehabilitation Support Services, Inc. hiring a Youth Peer Advocate!
The CTTP program is seeking a youth peer advocate (YPA) for the CTTP program (which will start as CTI – Critical Time Intervention prior to the Residence being opened). This program works with youth who are in the Emergency Department or awaiting Hospital discharge, and for a multitude of reasons are unable to return home. This team is tasked with bridging and linking appropriate services for safe transition to the community. This program serves up to 16 youth at a time (Once the residence is open – 8 youth would be part of the transitional residence). The youth peer would have close connection with the youth, youth’s legal guardian, family natural supports/and chosen family. The youth peer would ensure youth voice/choice, and guided decisions were being made for the best interest of youth treatment and healing.
St. Anne Institute hiring a Family Peer Advocate!
Family Peer Advocates are responsible for supplying advocacy services as well as exercising the roles of mediator, broker, educator, advocate, and outreach worker on behalf of The St. Anne Institute’s clients and families. Family Peer Advocates will provide culturally competent and sensitive services. As part of a team within the agency, they are expected to work closely with all direct and support staff, including psychiatric staff, to ensure the appropriate treatment interventions for the client and their family.
Family Ties of Westchester Career Opportunities!
Have you faced life’s challenges, overcome them and want to give back to your community? Your experience has power. Share it and help others like you be heard, supported, and empowered.
We need people with strong, active voices. As Westchester’s only independent, family-run, peer support organization, we are dedicated to achieving equity and social change. We value your lived experience navigating service systems and your ability to advocate for yourself, family, and community. Learn more: Family Ties of Westchester – Career Opportunities
Vanderheyden hiring a Family Peer Advocate!
The Family Peer Advocate provides an array of formal and informal activities and support to families caring for/ raising a child who is experiencing social, emotional, medical, developmental, substance use, and/or behavioral challenges in their home, school, placement, and/or community. Family Peer Support Services provides a structured, strength-based relationship between a Family Peer Advocate (FPA) and the parent/family member/caregiver for the benefit of the child/youth. Services are delivered in a trauma informed, culturally and linguistically competent manner.
Click here for qualifications and instructions to apply today!
New York City Region
AIDS Center of Queens County hiring Peer Supervisor, Youth Safe Program!
The Peer Supervisor provides peer practice leadership, coaching, and reflective supervision to Youth Peer Advocates. Drawing on both lived experience and supervisory expertise, the Peer Supervisor supports the development of high-quality, ethical, and recovery-oriented peer support services.
This position serves as a subject matter expert in peer support and works collaboratively within a matrix management structure. The Peer Supervisor provides guidance and consultation related to peer practice, while the Program Manager maintains responsibility for day-to-day operations, performance management, scheduling, and administrative oversight.
This is primarily a coaching and consultation role and involves limited administrative responsibilities. The Peer Supervisor does not provide direct services to youth.
ACMH, Inc. hiring Young Adult Peer Advocates – Safe Options Support (SOS)!
Youth Community Outreach on the streets and places where unhoused young adults frequent; coordinating participants needs before and after move from street to home, enhancing their daily living skills, accompaniment to appointments, and advocating on their behalf when faced with discrimination or healthcare inequities.
Minimum High School Diploma or equivalent or higher. New York State Certified Youth Peer Advocate (YPA) preferred or required Completion of an internship or comparable training in peer advocacy; experience in providing advocacy services to people who are mentally ill and/or homeless. Past or current participant of behavioral health, substance services or homeless services preferred.
Vibrant Emotional Health Hiring Youth and Family Peer Advocates!
Help build a stronger, more connected support system for NYC’s youth and families. As a Family Peer Advocate, Community Engagement with the Coordinated Children’s Services Initiative (CCSI-NYC), you’ll bring your lived experience and passion for community to a role that truly makes a difference. You’ll help families feel heard, strengthen partnerships across the city, and contribute to improving how mental health services work for children who need them most.
In this engaging, community-focused position, you’ll lead outreach efforts, connect with families across all five boroughs, and help facilitate welcoming borough-based council meetings that center youth mental health. You’ll organize meaningful community events and awareness activities, collaborate with local partners, and make sure families’ voices help shape the support they receive.
If you enjoy building relationships, uplifting families, and working alongside a team that values compassion and collaboration, this role offers a rewarding opportunity to create lasting impact.
Family Peer Advocate Community Engagement
JEMCare hiring Youth and Family Peer Advocates!
Youth Peer Support (YPS) provides peer-based guidance, support, and advocacy to youth with behavioral health needs. Using lived experience, YPS providers help members build skills, access resources, and navigate behavioral health systems in a supportive, youth-centered way. Services are delivered in home and community-based settings.
Family Peer Support Services (FPSS) provides peer-based support, advocacy, and guidance to parents and caregivers of children and youth with behavioral health needs. Using lived experience navigating child-serving systems, FPSS providers empower families to build skills, strengthen resilience, and effectively advocate for their children. Services are delivered in home and community-based settings in accordance with CFTSS requirements.
Saint Dominic’s Family Services hiring Youth and Family Peer Support Positions!
The Youth Peer Support Services Worker will be responsible for engaging youth and their families in order to assist them in identifying their needs as well as achieving their goals. The Youth Peer Support Services worker will be an integral part of the Children and Family Treatment Support Services (CFTSS) Program and will participate in supportive, recreational and educational activities offered to youth and families.
The Family Peer Support Services Worker assists the program in providing services to families in the areas where support and advocacy is needed, but do not require the full services of the Care Manager. Duties include escorting, advocacy, assisting families to access community resources, and family support. Accompany and transportation of children and families are essential components of the position.
To apply online, and to read the complete job description, please visit the agency website: www.sdfs.org/careers. Select desired work location; Rockland or Bronx. Please email mgabella@sdfs.org for additional information or assistance.
Families On The Move of NYC, Inc. hiring Peer Support Positions!
FOTM employs approximately 25 people in 8 different programs throughout New York City and Westchester County, and provide training, consultation and technical assistance to other family support organizations throughout the New York City Metropolitan area. FOTM also offers, from time to time, a limited number of volunteer opportunities for members of the community looking for another way to get involved. Apply at https://fotmnyc.org/careers%2Fvolunteer
The Child Center of NY hiring Youth and Family Peer Advocates!
The Youth Advocate is responsible for developing and facilitating in the social and personal development of adolescents and teenagers. A Youth Advocate is a guide to youth and gives direction in their academic, vocational, and personal lives.
Are you a parent or caregiver who’s navigated complex child-serving systems and wants to use your lived experience to support other families? We’re looking for a compassionate Family Peer Advocate to walk alongside families, help them find their voice, and connect them to the resources they need to thrive.
Central Region
Helio Health hiring Youth ACT Family Peer Specialist!
Be a part of a ground-breaking new program! Join Helio Health’s Youth Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Team (Formerly Circare), serving families and youth in Onondaga County. This multi-disciplinary team will work with children ages 10 to 21 and their families to provide intensive intervention to support complex needs, as well as keeping children at risk of hospitalization or residential care in their homes.
Helio Health is seeking a credentialed Family Peer Specialist for the Youth ACT team, who will provide formal and informal support, based on lived experience, to families who are raising a child experiencing social and emotional challenges. This FPA position is full-time, during regular business hours, M-F. We are looking for a candidate interested in community-based work and who is committed to supporting children with complex mental health needs and their families.
Youth ACT Family Peer Specialist
Long Island
Lodestar Children’s Services hiring In-Home Mental Health Support Specialist!
In-Home Mental Health Support Specialist
