FORENSIC PEER SUPPORT 

Peer Support is an evidence-based, best practice where a community health specialist uses his or her own experience of recovery from bio-psycho-social-spiritual disorders to support others in their own recovery. Certified Peer Professionals with prior justice-involvement that also have physical, mental health conditions and/or substance use disorders may specialize in forensic peer support.

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Allied professionals, include mediators and investigators, mitigation specialists, forensic social workers, victim advocates, court-appointed special advocates, traumatologists, neurocriminologists, and psychiatric rehabilitation specialists.

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Forensic Peer Specialists are persons with justice-involvement and histories of mental illness, SUD, or co-occurring disorders helping those with similar histories appropriately engage, support, and receive services from the public safety and public health systems. This curriculum explores salutogenesis, neurocriminology, and the salient features of effective forensic peer support:

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(1) Re-Entry

(2) Rehabilitation

(3) Recovery

(4) Reintegration

(5) Reconciliation

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This forensic peer training is currently authorized in the states of Maryland and Virginia. CCC offers the Integrated Forensic Peer Recovery Specialist (i-FPRS) train-the-trainer curriculum once a year to highly experienced, certified peer professionals.​