SUD Peer Support Specialist

GLIDE is a nationally recognized center for social justice, dedicated to fighting systemic injustices, creating pathways out of poverty and crisis, and transforming lives. Through its integrated comprehensive services, advocacy initiatives, and inclusive community, GLIDE empowers individuals, families, and children to achieve stability and to thrive. GLIDE is on the forefront of addressing some of society’s most pressing issues, including poverty, housing and homelessness, and racial and social justice. GLIDE’s mission is to create a radically inclusive, just, and loving community mobilized to alleviate suffering and break the cycles of poverty and marginalization

The SUD Peer Support Specialist direct focus, as part of a multi-disciplinary team, is to provide peer support services to individuals living with a mental illness and/or substance use disorder (SUD), emphasizing service connection, case management, and recovery coaching that will support overall wellness. The SUD Peer Support Specialist will ensure participants understand all services and opportunities available at GLIDE in an effort to support, promote, and enhance participant’s wellness, growth mindset, stability, and self-sufficiency. This position will require group facilitation that promotes social connection/awareness/access/and empowerment. The principal duties are performed both in an office environment and in the field at pop-up community events. This position is expected to collaborate and table at community events in the Tenderloin and throughout San Francisco’s marginalized communities.