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Pride Mental Health's

Certified Support Services

All Pride Mental Health Certified Support Services promote unconditional hope, wellness, and recovery outcomes for individuals as well as their natural support system. Certified Peer Support (CPS), Certified Youth Support Services (CYS), and Certified Family Support (CFS) Services each assist individuals and families through non-authoritative (peer to peer) role modeling, support, and coaching, using evidence-based, peer-centered, empowerment tools. These Support Services are available to individuals/families who struggle with a severe and persistent mental illness or emotional disturbance who are actively involved in mental health treatment, acting as an extension of Counseling/Therapy services. These support service reflects the values, philosophies, intentions, and connectivity as both Idaho's newly adopted YES (Youth Empowerment Services) Program.

 A Certified Peer, Family, or Youth Support's responsibility is to relate and support; not to instruct. Certified Support Specialists have been vetted and evaluated for both appropriateness as well as eligibility to become certified, by providing his or her own experiences with persistent mental health challenges and, more importantly, must have been able to demonstrate how he or she has overcome and/or learned to manage these mental health challenges. 

Specific Aim for each Support Service

Peer Support - for Adults 18 and Over

Designed to bring individuals together to share and encourage growth, based on sharing personal experiences, tools, and resources to prompt the best possible outcomes for daily life decisions.

Certified Youth Support - Children ages 8 to 18

Designed to pair individuals with children to focus on the sharing of personal experience, prompting and encouragement to help the child toward more successful outcomes for challenges the child experiences.

Certified Family Support - for Children (under 18) and Their Families.

Designed to bring someone (non-authoritative) with personal experience into the family dynamic; working with all family members to inspire appropriate problem-solving, decision-making, and functionality within the family unit.

Pride Mental Health's Certified Support Services assist individuals and families by providing life-experience as well as positive and reinforcing examples to help guide through life's tough decisions, and are an extension of your therapy. Ask your counselor for more details, and discuss together to decide if any of the Certified Support Services we offer are appropriate for you and/or your family. This decision should always be made between you and your counselor.

For more information on Pride Mental Health's Certified Support Services, and any other services we offer, please contact us at 208.322.2928

Remember, Extended (Additional/Community) Services, such as a Certified Support Service, Case Management, or CBRS should always be a decision made between you and your counselor.