Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 24 - Mental Health › Part 2 - Operational Standards for Mental Health, Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Use Community Service Providers › Chapter 42 - Peer Support Services › Rule 24-2-42.1 - Service Design

Current through June 25, 2024
A. Peer Support
				Services are non-clinical activities with a rehabilitation and
				resiliency/recovery focus that allow a person receiving mental health services
				and substance use services and their family members the opportunity to build
				skills for coping with and managing psychiatric symptoms, substance use issues
				and challenges associated with various disabilities while directing their own
				recovery. Natural resources are utilized to enhance community living skills,
				community integration, rehabilitation, resiliency and recovery. Peer Support is
				a helping relationship between peers and/or family members that is directed
				toward the achievement of specific goals defined by the person. Peer Support
				Services are provided by Certified Peer Support Specialist Professionals. A
				Certified Peer Support Specialist Professional is a person with significant
				life-altering experience, also referred to as lived experience, who has
				successfully completed peer support competencies-based training and
				testing.
B. Certified Peer Support
				Specialist Professionals include the following designations:
1. A Certified Peer Support Specialist
				Professional - Adult (CPSSP-A) is an adult diagnosed with a mental illness
				and/or substance use disorder who can demonstrate his/her own efforts at
				self-directed recovery and expertise including knowledge and approaches to
				support others in recovery. This designation prepares people who are
				successfully engaged in recovery from mental health and/or substance use who
				provide support to others who can benefit from their experiences and knowledge
				to help other adults in their recovery journey.
2. A Certified Peer Support Specialist
				Professional - Parent/Caregiver (CPSSP-P) is a biological parent, adoptive
				parent, or relative caregiver with permanent legal custody who is raising or
				has raised a child/youth with an emotional, social, behavioral, and/or
				substance use disability; and, whose child/youth has received services from a
				children/youth mental health provider. The Certified Peer Support Specialist
				Professional- Parent/Caregiver will provide support and guidance to
				parent(s)/caregiver(s) in navigating the child/youth serving systems and
				advocating with them to help their child/youth.
3. A Certified Peer Support Specialist
				Professional - Youth/Young Adult (CPSSP-Y) is a person between the ages of
				eighteen - twenty-six (18-26) with lived experience with a behavioral health
				diagnosis who can demonstrate his/her own efforts in self-directed recovery. A
				behavioral health diagnosis can include a mental and/or substance use disorder.
				This designation prepares people who are successfully engaged in recovery from
				mental health and/or substance use disorders to help others in their recovery
				journey.
4. A Certified Peer
				Support Specialist Professional - Recovery (CPSSP-R) is an adult diagnosed with
				a substance use disorder who provides Peer Support Services for people in
				recovery from substance use disorders.