The Peer Support Specialist works closely with individuals with mental illness and substance use disorders, acting as a mentor while providing support and assistance to individuals in the following areas: sharing lived experience, achieving community inclusion, participation, independence, recovery, resiliency, and/or productivity. Facilitates wellness groups and coaching that address skills needed for transition into adulthood and improved autonomous functioning including Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP), Whole Health Action Management (WHAM), Smoking Cessation, among others, and support individuals in those groups in gaining access to community programs and services.