Candidate
Explores the role; completes screening, credential/requirement review, values interview, and recovery-readiness conversation.
Readiness evidenceNo independent peer service.
From lived experience to disciplined service
Peer Workforce Pathway
A peer credential is not merely a story with a badge. Reliable peer practice requires role clarity, approved training and certification where applicable, competency, supervision, documentation, self-awareness, boundaries, and continued recovery-supportive development.
Professional identityLived experience is the instrument. Ethics, scope, supervision, and evidence teach us how to hold it.
The formation standard
Know. Do. Prove. Reflect. Grow.
The Reach One pathway may supplement official credentialing and employer requirements. It never casually substitutes for state certification, background checks, training-hour requirements, continuing education, supervision, payer enrollment, or organizational authorization.
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Purposeful self-disclosureShare briefly, honestly, and only when the disclosure advances the participant’s goals.
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Scope-safe actionMentor, advocate, navigate, coach, connect, and escalate—without diagnosing or practicing therapy.
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Professional reliabilityShow up, document truthfully, use supervision, protect privacy, and repair mistakes.
Developmental ladder
Progress follows evidence—not the turning of a calendar page.
Observer
Completes orientation, privacy, ethics, scope, safety, and observation under an approved process.
Readiness evidenceCan explain the role and identify red lines.
Guided Peer
Practices engagement, support mapping, role plays, mock documentation, and resource navigation with immediate coaching.
Readiness evidenceCompetency evidence under direct guidance.
Supervised Peer
Delivers authorized peer functions within scope and required supervision; early work receives enhanced review.
Readiness evidenceNotes, observations, outcomes, and supervision reviewed.
Competent Peer
Demonstrates sustained role clarity, participant-centered practice, reliable documentation, closed-loop follow-through, and use of supervision.
Readiness evidenceReadiness approved through defined rubric.
Preceptor / Lead
Models practice, supports orientation, conducts approved observations, and helps peers build skills without replacing the supervisor.
Readiness evidenceAdvanced competency and leadership evidence.
Supervisor / Faculty
Provides qualified supervision or training according to applicable standards, employer policy, and documented authority.
Readiness evidenceSupervision, remediation, quality, and workforce outcomes.
Core learning
- Peer values and ethics
- Recovery and wellness
- Trauma-informed interaction
- Cultural humility
- Confidentiality
- Boundaries
- Crisis routing
Practice skills
- Engagement
- Intentional self-disclosure
- Support mapping
- Advocacy
- Groups
- Resource navigation
- Documentation
Professional capacity
- Supervision use
- Time and attendance
- Technology and EHR
- Team communication
- Burnout and recovery maintenance
- Remediation
- Career planning
Training-completion disclaimer:
Reach One-defined training or competency evidence does not independently confer state certification, professional licensure, academic credit, board-approved continuing education, payer eligibility, employment, or authority to practice outside legal scope and organizational authorization.