03/11/2026
CFD is Hiring!
Are you ready to join a vibrant team focused on supporting community members pursue self-directed
goals and navigate complex systems? Center for Family Development (CFD) is excited to offer a
rewarding job opportunity helping community members become their best selves. If you are interested
in using your own diverse background to help clients thrive, please keep reading…
ABOUT US
CFD, an outpatient behavioral health and substance abuse treatment agency, is seeking a qualified Peer
Support Specialist to join our team.
The Behavioral Health Resource Network (BHRN) Peer Support Specialist (PSS)will offer peer support to
individuals in the community as they access our low barrier recovery services. The person in this position
will need to be available four days a week to work with individuals at CFD offices and in the community.
The PSS is a dedicated, diverse, and valued team member focused on helping clients navigate community
resources, facilitate recreational therapeutic activities, and provide skill-building tools. In addition to the
direct client work, the PSS will participate in organizational meetings, collaborate with community
partners, and complete paperwork (including electronic health record information).
The BHRN PSS will provide low barrier peer services on a one-time as well as ongoing basis with clients.
Job duties specific to this peer position include:
- Regularly staffing the recovery programs low barrier access point during open hours Monday –
Thursday
- Working closely with recovery program case manager to support low resourced, high need individuals
- Collaborating with BHRN partner agencies to provide low barrier access to services for shared clients
- Transporting clients to BHRN partner agencies and other community-based agencies for essential
behavioral and physical health services and to facilitate accessing of community resources
- Representing CFD at community outreach events
- Providing basic overview of recovery program services and offerings
- Understanding and providing harm reduction best practices
- Responding to acute mental health and/or substance use related Women's Crisis Support Team
POSITION DETAILS & BENEFITS
• Full Time (32 Hours/Week
• Medical, Dental, Vision, Pet Insurance
• PTO, Paid Time Off
• Paid Holidays
• Retirement Match
• Flexible Schedules
• Continuing Education/Training Funds
Eligible for medical, dental, and vision benefits (eligible on 1st of the month after hire)
Work hours can be somewhat flexible based on employee and client schedule availability.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
• Background check. Not all convictions are instant disqualifiers for hire. Please consider applying
even if you have previous infractions.
• Oregon driver’s license, insurance, and safe driving history. This job requires use of a personal
vehicle: a per mile reimbursement of driving expenses is provided.
• Lived experience with recovery from substance use.
• Continuous Abstinence. A PSS recovering from a substance use disorder and providing peer
support services in the Recovery Program must be able to document continuous abstinence
under independent living conditions or recovery housing for the immediate past two years.
• Certification as a Peer Support Specialist in Addictions through OHA, Oregon Health Authority, or
Certified Recovery Mentor certification through MHACBO required.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Experience providing peer support.
• Bilingual, in particular the ability to speak Spanish. A differential may be provided if part of the
position.
CFD's mission: CFD joins respectfully with diverse individuals and families to identify and access their
strengths and resources to enhance their lives as well as their participation in the community. CFD
ensures effective services by providing education and training for staff and interns.
CFD has been dedicated to supporting family relationships since its inception in 1991. We believe that
healthy families create healthy people and we recognize there are many ways to be a family. CFD
believes in strength-based, client-centered, research-informed approaches.
CFD is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. CFD does not discriminate on the basis of race, color,
gender, disability, veteran, military status, religion, age, creed, national origin, gender identity or
expression, sexual orientation, marital status, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by local,
state, or federal law.
Employer questions:
• Do you speak Spanish?
• Do you have lived experience with recovery from substance use?
• Do you have an Oregon driver's license, insurance, and a safe driving record?
• Do you have a personal vehicle you can use for work, in return for receiving a per mile
reimbursement of driving expenses?
• "Have you completed an Oregon Health Authority or MHACBO approved training for Peer
Support Specialist specializing in working with addictions?"
