Clients’ Perspectives Regarding Peer Support Providers’ Roles and Support for Client Access to and Use of Publicly Funded Mental Health Programs Serving Transition-Age Youth in Two Southern California Counties

Hiller-Venegas, Sarah; Gilmer, Todd; Jones, Nev; Munson, Michelle R.; Ojeda, Victoria D.

doi:10.1007/s11414-022-09792-6

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“…This deeper understanding enables YPSWs to validate feelings associated with adverse experiences, and to provide emphatic confrontation for current maladaptive behaviors [36,40]. Moreover, through modeling recovery, YPSWs can stimulate self-acceptance, positive identity formation, and give young person's perspective by providing a real-life example that recovery is attainable [16,31,36,40,42].…”

Section: Emotional Supportmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The engagement role of YPSWs was reported in most of the included studies, and involves building trust, reaching out, reducing isolation, and (re-) engaging young persons in youth mental healthcare [9,10,16,18,20,28,[28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37]. YPSWs are uniquely qualified for this role as their lived experience enables YPSWs to start relationships grounded on equality, authentic empathy and a non-judgmental attitude [17, 20, 28-31, 36, 39, 40].…”

Section: Engagement Rolementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Moreover, YPSWs are often close in age to these young persons' using services. This allows YPSWs to engage young persons by offering developmentally and culturally appropriate support [4,16,17,20,28,29,31,33,39,40]. This deeper understanding of youth culture also allows YPSWs in the engagement role to assist services in changing the atmosphere to become more welcoming for young people [9,20,41].…”

Section: Engagement Rolementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Within the navigating and planning role, multiple studies described that YPSWs can support service users and treatment teams in prioritizing and planning treatment based on the personal goals of the young person [16,18,20,31,33,36,38,41,42]. Moreover, many YPSWs have a wide range of experiences within the mental health care system.…”

Section: Navigating and Planning Rolementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Moreover, many YPSWs have a wide range of experiences within the mental health care system. YPSWs can use these experiences to help young persons, staff and caretakers in navigating and finding appropriate mental health services [10,15,31,42]. For example, one study reported YPSWs can facilitate the transition from youth to adult mental health services by joining service users to intakes in adult services [10].…”

Section: Navigating and Planning Rolementioning

confidence: 99%

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A systematic review exploring youth peer support for young people with mental health problems

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Youth peer support workers (YPSWs) are young adults with lived experience of mental illness during childhood or adolescence who support young people receiving treatment in mental health services. The contributions made by YPSWs are a promising development to facilitate consumer-centered and recovery-oriented care. Although the youth peer support workforce is expanding rapidly, structurally embedding YPSWs in practice is challenging. To overcome these challenges and thereby improve care for young people, insight into YPSW roles, barriers and facilitators for implementing and pursuing youth peer support (YPS) is a necessity. This systematic review examined the published literature to identify existing knowledge on YPSW roles in treatment settings, and the barriers and facilitators for implementing and pursuing YPS in practice. A total of 24 studies from a variety of youth serving contexts were included in this review. Thematic synthesis resulted in six YPSW roles and five themes with barriers and facilitators. The roles included the: engagement role, emotional support role, navigating and planning role, advocacy role, research role and the educational role. The themes explored the needs of YPSWs, experiences of YPSWs, relationships between service users and YPSWs, the collaboration process between YPSWs and non-peer staff, and organizational readiness. This review underlines that YPSWs likely are a valuable addition to numerous youth treatment contexts. Overall, the implementation of YPSWs is a multifaceted operation that requires careful planning. We recommend services to set clear and realistic expectations for YPSWs, to consider potential power imbalances between YPSWs and non-peer staff, to provide adequate resources to pursue YPS, and to approach the implementation of YPSWs with a growth mindset.

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Section: Emotional Supportmentioning

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Section: Engagement Rolementioning

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Section: Engagement Rolementioning

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Section: Navigating and Planning Rolementioning

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Adapting Community Health Worker Care Models to Advance Mental Health Services Among LGBTQ Youth

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Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth of color experience high rates of mental health disorders, yet they experience challenges to accessing mental health services. Community health worker (CHW) models of care have potential to promote equitable mental health services among LGBTQ youth. Our aim was to understand how CHW models could be adapted to better support LGBTQ youth of color in accessing mental health services. Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with LGBTQ youth of color (n = 16), caregivers of LGBTQ youth (n = 11), and CHWs (n = 15) in Massachusetts and California. Interviews were coded by 8 members of the research team. A Rapid Qualitative Analysis was conducted to identify themes. Caregivers, youth, and CHWs all endorsed the value of CHW models for this population. They also almost universally suggested multiple adaptations are needed for the model to be effective. Four main categories of themes emerged related to intervention adaptations: (1) Why adaptations are needed for LGBTQ youth, (2) Who should serve as CHWs providing care, (3) How CHWs should be trained, and (4) What content needs to be included in the intervention. Broadly, findings suggest the relevance of having CHW models for LGBTQ youth of color to address stigma and discrimination experienced, access to culturally and linguistically relevant services, and the need for caregiver support of LGBTQ youth. CHWs need increased training in these areas.

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Improving Collaboration Between Youth Peer Support Workers and Non-peer Colleagues in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

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Vermeiren

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The involvement of youth peer workers (YPSWs) in child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) stimulates hope, destigmatization, and more culturally and developmentally appropriate support. Nevertheless, the collaboration between YPSWs and non-peer colleagues remains challenging, as it requires services to embed a new type of expert into practice. To stimulate the involvement of YPSWs in practice, this study reports on 27 semi-structured interviews with YPSWs and non-peer colleagues to provide insight into the barriers and facilitators in the collaboration process. The study took place in the Netherlands. A total of 10 interviews with YPSWs, and 17 interviews with non-peer colleagues in different healthcare occupations in CAMHS were conducted. Overall, the participants perceived relatively more barriers compared to facilitators in the collaboration process. Barriers to operate efficiently with YPSWs in multidisciplinary teams included: condescending attitudes and professional stigma towards YPSWs; concerns for YPSW boundaries; bureaucratic and clinical language usage by non-peer colleagues; conflicts due to different sets of expertise; and, lack of role clarity and guidelines for YPSWs. To improve the partnership between YPSWs and non-peer colleagues, participants described the importance of supervision and monitoring of YPSW activities. Moreover, participants also stressed the need for clear guidelines, and introduction and evaluation sessions to facilitate the collaboration process. While YPSWs seem to be an asset to CAMHS, there are a number of barriers to overcome. To overcome these barriers, organizational commitment, supervision (especially from peer colleagues), flexibility by non-peer colleagues, training non-peer staff to support YPSWs, and consistent evaluation of the implementation of YPSWs in services is recommended.

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Clients’ Perspectives Regarding Peer Support Providers’ Roles and Support for Client Access to and Use of Publicly Funded Mental Health Programs Serving Transition-Age Youth in Two Southern California Counties

Cited by 10 publications

References 51 publications

A systematic review exploring youth peer support for young people with mental health problems

A systematic review exploring youth peer support for young people with mental health problems

Adapting Community Health Worker Care Models to Advance Mental Health Services Among LGBTQ Youth

Improving Collaboration Between Youth Peer Support Workers and Non-peer Colleagues in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

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