Peer definition

Peer means any individual supporting an individual or the individual's family member who has similar life experience, either as a current or former recipient of mental health or substance use services, or as a family member of an individual who is a current or former recipient of substance use or mental health services.

Peer means an individual who has a personal experience of living with a mental health condition or psychiatric disability.

Peer means any person supporting an individual, or a family member of an individual, who has similar life experience, either as a current or former recipient of addictions or mental health services, or as a family member of an individual who is a current or former recipient of addictions or mental health services.

Examples of Peer in a sentence

• The purpose of BFPC Services is to increase Breastfeeding duration and exclusivity rates by providing basic Breastfeeding information, encouragement, and appropriate referrals at specific intervals, primarily through an LPHA Peer Counselor, to pregnant and Breastfeeding Participants who are participating inthe BFPC Program.

• LPHA must document BFPC Participant assignment to a Peer Counselor in TWIST.

• Funds provided under this Agreement for this Program Element may only be used in accordance with, and subject to, the requirements and limitations set forth below to deliver Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children services (“WIC Services”), Farm Direct Nutrition Program services (“FDNP Services”), and Breastfeeding Peer Counseling Program services (“BFPC Services”).

• LPHA must assure that all Peer Counselors document all contact with BFPC Participants according to the WIC Manual.

• An LPHA staff person who supervises (or if the governing collective bargaining agreement or local organizational structure prohibits this person from supervising staff, mentors and coaches and directs the work of BFPC Peer Counselors and manages the delivery of the BFPC Services at the local level according to the WIC Manual.

More Definitions of Peer

Peer means a person who has equal professional status with a Medicaid provider of a specific type or specialty. Where a person with equal professional status is not reasonably available, a peer includes a person with substantially similar professional status.

Peer means a Practitioner or clinician whose interest and expertise as documented by clinical practice is reasonably determined to be comparable in scope and emphasis to that of another Practitioner or clinician.

Peer means with respect to any Practitioner, any other Practitioner from the same discipline (for example, Physician and Physician, Dentist and Dentist).

Peer is defined as a District regular or contract faculty member normally in the same or a related discipline.

Peer means a co-worker who is not the licensure candidate's employer or supervisor.

Peer means an individual who is a current or former recipi-

Peer means an individual who has a personal experience of living