Key Players
An individual who is 18 years of age or older
What is an Adult?
The term for CalMHSA, the organization selected by California Counties, with a plan approved by the Department of Health Care Services, to certify Medi-Cal Peer Support Specialists and approve training providers.
What is Certifying Entity?
indicates all requirements of a Medi-Cal Peer Support Specialist by CalMHSA.
What is Certification?
an individual's first-hand experience with a mental health and/or substance use challenges, including the process of recovery and engagement of resiliency within that experience.
persons who share similar understanding of experiences with mental health and/or substance use challenges.
What is a Peer?
The term for the recognition of certified Mei-Cal Peer Support Specialists by public county behavioral health plans.
What is County Reciprocity?
the process by which an individual who is employed as a peer on January 1st 2022, or prior to that date, are eligible o seek certification as a Medi-Cal Peer Support Specialist so long as they meet the eligibility criteria and successfully pass the state-approved exam.
What is the Grandparenting Process?
the process of change through which individuals improve their health and wellness, live a self-directed life, and strive to reach their full potential. This process of change recognizes cultural diversity and inclusion and honors the different routes to resilience and recovery based on the individual and their cultural community.
An individual who has been vertified as Medi-Cal Peer Support Specialist by CalMHSA
What is a Certificant?
The certifying entity approved by the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) to certify peer support specialists, peer support specialist training entities, and peer support specialist continuing education providers.
What is California mental Health Services Authority (CalMHSA)?
the process for an applicant to become certified as a Medi-Cal Peer Support Specialist for the first time so long as they meet the eligibility criteria and successfully pass the state-approved exam.
What is Initial Certification?
The conscious and deliberate process of creating and adapting patterns of behavior that lead to improved health in the following dimensions: emotional, financial, social, spiritual, educational/occupational, physical, intellectual, and environmental.
What is Wellness?
a person who is receiving mental health and/or substance use disorder (behavioral health services) in a public coutny behavioral health delivery system
what is a Consumer?
Culturally appropriate services that promote engagement, socialization, recovery, self-sufficiency, self-advocacy, development of natural supports, and identification of strengths. These services include prevention services, support, coaching, facilitation or education.
What is Medi-Cal Peer Support Specialist Services?
the education a Certificant recieves to further develop their professional knowledge around best practices, updated laws, and/or specialized training.
What is Continued Education?
an individual's capacity to successfully meet life's challenges, nurtured to have a sense of self-determination, mastery and hope.
What is Resiliency?
an individual who recieves peer services from a Medi-Cal Peer Support Specialist.
What is a Beneficiary/Recipient?
a set of guidelines a certified Medi-Cal Peer Support Specialist in California adheres to around their roles and responsibilities and levels of responsibility in which they function professionally.
minimum knowledge base necessary to perform role or job activities as a Medi-Cal Peer Support Specialist in California.
What are Core Competencies?
a Medi-Cal Peer Support Specialist's non-therapeutic relationship with a recipient of care. It includes any activity identified as not allowed within the Code of Ethics.
What is Dual Relationship?