Join our team

We are proud to be a recovery-friendly workplace. We have a trauma-informed team who cares and our peer-run culture is often described as a family.

Many of our staff are dual-certified Peer Recovery Specialists and Community Health Workers delivering effective and evidence-based peer recovery services and supports with lived recovery experience of overcoming mental health and/or opioid and other substance use challenges.

Our team has direct lived experience and working toward or currently certified as a peer recovery specialist and/or community health worker.

Peer Recovery Specialist - an individual who has lived experience as a peer in recovery from mental health and/or substance use challenges who after extensive training can support and assist others in achieving their own recovery and wellness.
Community Health Worker - an individual who serves as a community health educator, navigates healthcare services, and works to reduce health care disparities and promote health equity.

For those looking for Rhode Island Behavioral Health training opportunities, check their calendar via C4Innovations website. Other helpful peer recovery resource is RI Cares and community health worker resource is CHWARI.

PSN is hiring! We're growing our Family Support Visitation Team.

Part-time and full-time Family Support Visitation positions work with families of children and youth who are at high risk or who have serious emotional, behavioral health challenges with involvement in child welfare, justice system, and family court. PSN is committed to hiring individuals who are birth, foster and/or adoptive parents and are ready to serve as peers and coach others by sharing similar lived experiences to access services and support.

Family Support Visitation Coaches partner with caregivers, provide support and assistance with navigating and accessing services and support; and providing trauma informed and evidence-based Family Time Coaching Model with community-based visitation to support reunification and home-based wellness visits and parent education training to preserve families. PSN provides extensive training and clinical supervision for our staff with a paid apprenticeship program.

Family Support Visitation Coaches must have reliable vehicles and be willing to transport children to visits and other needed treatment and services. Multiple shifts are available, and we need flexible hours into early evenings and weekends. Individuals should possess a strong sense of empathy, good communication and collaboration skills, documentation skills, and are knowledgeable of the regulations for accessing and working with the interacting service systems, programs, and statewide community resources.

Qualifications

High School or equivalent and Driver's License required
Bilingual is additional strength and need
Strong communication and problem-solving skills
Ability to work on-site in Warwick, RI with flexibility for family-focused schedules
Willingness to transport families and work some weeknights and weekends

PSN specializes in peer-based family support. Feel free to reach out if you have lived experience raising children or youth with serious emotional, behavioral, and mental health challenges or special education needs, or experience supporting children or youth whose parents have mental health and/or substance use challenges, or child welfare involvement.