Peer Bridger/Mentor-(OMH) SS Queens Adult Homes
About this role
Job DetailsJob Location: Long Island City, NY 11101Position Type: Part TimeEducation Level: High SchoolSalary Range: $16.00 - $17.00 HourlyTravel Percentage: NoneJob Shift: DayJob Category: Nonprofit - Social ServicesComunilfie Inc. is looking for experienced Peer Mentors for its OMH Adult Homes Scatter Site Program. This position will be Assisting to promote recovery, re-housing, and coping skills among program participants by providing emotional support, companionship, and the benefit of their own experience with substance abuse, mental illness and/or homelessness, after undergoing peer mentor training. The Peer Mentors assist program participants manage recovery issues by promoting mental and physical health, sobriety or harm reduction, self-care, medication compliance, and in general, a better quality of life and independence. This is a part time position working approximately 15 to 20 hrs a week.
Essential Duties
Assist with the outreach, engagement, and acculturation of program participants struggling with issues of mental illness, homelessness, and substance abuse
Provide crisis intervention services and supportive counseling within capability and training to assist participants to reduce/eliminate self-destructive behaviors;
Assist in building up the esteem and self confidence of participants, by engaging them in activities of mutual interest, accompanying participants to view apartments, or to appointments to aide in obtaining entitlements
Encourage participants to learn about and access specialized and natural community support
Using Peer Mentor Training and other skills to assist participants to appreciate and attain better mental and physical health, sobriety or harm reduction, services to help them manage mental illness issues and strive to attain and maintain independent living.
Assist clients in teaching/learning activities of daily living skills.
Peer Mentors will collaborate with case management staff on the needs of the client.
Conduct groups to promote socialization skills and promote recovery.
Documentation of interaction.
QualificationsEducation and Experience Requirement(s)
High School Diploma/GED(preferred); bilingual (Spanish and English) is preferred. Personal experience in managing homelessness, substance abuse and/or mental illness. Ability to form interpersonal relationships with others and to be able to influence and persuade others in positive activities.
Company at a glance
For 37 years, Comunilife (started in 1989) has been committed to improving the quality of life and creating a healthier tomorrow for New Yorkers with special needs in the Hispanic and broader communities, by providing culturally competent health and human services and a continuum of affordable and supportive housing. In 2025, Comunilife met the needs of more than 4,000 low-income and vulnerable New Yorkers. Roughly 90% of our clients have incomes below the federal poverty line; 90% are African-American or Latino; and 50% have Spanish as their primary (or sole) language. All struggle with profound challenges, i.e. chronic homelessness; HIV/AIDS and other major medical issues; serious mental illnesses and substance abuse.
Comunilife’s affordable and supportive housing programs address the need for safe, affordable, service enriched housing for a low-income population that has difficulty maintaining stable housing. A majority of our housing clients have a history of homelessness and/or long-term hospitalizations. Many are living with mental illness, HIV/AIDS and other chronic illnesses. Comunilife has 2,829 apartments/units in 13 supportive residences, 3 low-income apartment buildings and 1,068 scatter site apartments in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan. Our Medical Respite program provides short-term supportive housing and case management services to multiply-challenged patients leaving hospital care without a viable home in which to recuperate.
Comunilife is a leader in the field of Latina adolescent suicide prevention. Our Life is Precious™ Program, which opened in 2008, provides non-clinical services to girls’ ages 12 to 17 in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, Poughkeepsie, Yonkers, Hempstead, and Amsterdam. Activities include academic support, creative arts therapies, music lessons, wellness activities and concrete family services, are designed to reduce the risk factors associated with Latina adolescent suicide.
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