Turn your lived recovery experience into meaningful peer support.
Forest Grove Foundation is hiring a Certified Recovery Mentor / Peer Support Specialist to join our team in Forest Grove, OR!
Key Details:
**This role is intended to support male‑identified program participants; applicants who identify as male are encouraged to apply.
Who We Are: Forest Grove Foundation (FGF) is an emerging non-profit organization focused on poverty related issues serving Western Washington County. We serve individuals experiencing homelessness, behavioral health challenges, and provide supportive services for those in substance use recovery.
This next year looks to be an exciting time of new and expanding programming for the organization, including transitional housing, food, and recovery programs, and we’re looking for individuals who want to be a part of the growth!
To learn more, check out our website: https://forestgrovefoundation.org/
Forest Grove Foundation is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are dedicated to creating an inclusive atmosphere for all employees.
Who You Are: You are a compassionate individual with a deep commitment to supporting others on their recovery journey. You provide care in alignment with trauma informed, housing first principles and harm reduction practices, especially for those belonging to historically marginalized or excluded communities such as members of the BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ communities. You thrive in community-based work, bringing empathy, patience, and strong interpersonal skills to every interaction. Adaptable and resourceful, you navigate complex situations with professionalism and integrity, always honoring each person’s right to make their own choices. You believe in the power of lived experience and foster trust through authentic connection and advocacy. Collaboration energizes you, and you value diversity, equity, and inclusion as essential to meaningful recovery.
Other qualifications include:
What You’ll Do: As a Peer Support Specialist, you will walk alongside participants on their recovery journey, offering encouragement, advocacy, and practical support. You’ll engage in outreach to connect with individuals in the community, accompany participants to appointments and recovery activities, and help them navigate systems and resources. You’ll collaborate with partner organizations, contribute to Recovery Café programming, and assist with harm reduction efforts. Using trauma-informed practices and motivational interviewing, you’ll help participants set goals, develop recovery plans, and celebrate milestones. Your lived experience will serve as a source of hope and inspiration, modeling that recovery is possible while fostering trust and empowerment every step of the way.
A typical day may include:
Wallace Medical Concern is a non-profit organization providing neighborhood-based health care services and assistance for Portland Oregon area residents who face socioeconomic barriers in receiving care.
Over 40 years ago, a physician named James Reuler persuaded a handful of other doctors to join him in making medical visits to uninsured homeless and low-income residents of downtown Portland. Dr. Reuler named this fledgling organization The Wallace Medical Concern in memory of his patient Edwin B. Wallace, whose bequest helped to fund the group’s early expenses. Together he and a growing team of volunteer medical professionals worked hard to meet the most urgent needs of vulnerable women and men who had no other access to health care.
As the years passed, more and more people with great need started calling East Multnomah County home. Wallace moved with them, opening an urgent care clinic in Gresham and bringing a mobile medical clinic to locations throughout the area. In 2011 we began to offer our patients ongoing primary care with a regular family doctor. Today we are a full-service medical “home base” for individuals and families, with multi-cultural staff who partner fully with patients to improve their health.
Dr. Reuler founded Wallace in the belief that everyone deserves high-quality health care, regardless of circumstances. He was committed to meeting this need, one person at a time.
That hasn’t changed. Our teams care.
