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Legal and Professional Responsibility

• Perform all job tasks according to professional, legal and ethical standards. 
• Maintain participant confidentiality according to state and federal laws. 
• Assure that Client’s Rights are maintained. 
• Demonstrate healthy behaviors expected of a person in recovery.
• Document all interactions with participants according to agency policy and procedure.
• Participate in on-going education and training to maintain competency and certification.
• Request assistance from supervisors as necessary and appropriate.

Re-Engagement, Crisis Support and Safety

• Perform participant follow-up activities according to agency policy and procedure. 
• Re-engage the participant in their treatment/recovery plan. 
• Recognize crisis situations and respond appropriately. 
• Recognize risks to participant’s recovery and/or personal safety and respond appropriately.
• Implement strategies and techniques to maintain recovery and/or personal safety.

Resource Linkage and Follow-Up

• Verify that consent and release of information forms are current and complete, and make sure the participant understands the release prior to making contact with community resources and recovery support services. 
• Access appropriate community resources and recovery support services. 
• Teach participants the necessary processes to access available community resources and recovery support services. 
• Arrange transportation for participants to community resources and recovery support services.
• Verify participant attendance and/or compliance with treatment/recovery plan referrals.
• Document resource linkage and follow-up activities according to agency policy and procedure.

Practical Living Skills and Social Development

• Introduce or expose participants to new healthy social activities, people and places. 
• Assist participants to establish and maintain personal care habits, including but not limited to personal hygiene, nutrition, time management and money management skills. 
• Assist participants to establish and maintain social responsibility habits, such as paying taxes, gaining and maintaining legal employment, voting, paying bills on time and acting as a “good neighbor.”
• Assist participants to establish/reestablish and maintain healthy interpersonal relationships with persons such as family members, significant others, friends and/or family members of choice.
• Encourage and assist participants to volunteer in the community.

Recovery Management

• Perform appropriate program activities, such as intake and orientation.
• Engage and assist participants to move through the stages of recovery and develop recovery capital.
• Apply strategies designed to enhance participants’ motivation to change.
• Assist and motivate participants to navigate the array of services available to achieve and maintain recovery.
• Observe participant behaviors to determine risk to maintaining recovery.
• Recognize the signs and symptoms of a lapse/relapse and respond appropriately.
• Daily, reinforce reasons why recovery is a viable and achievable path

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