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Northwest Alabama Mental Health Center
Youth Peer Support Specialist
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A Mental Health Assistant provides basic care and assistance with daily activities to patients with mental illnesses or cognitive disabilities. Helps patients dress and eat, monitors patients' well-being, and restrains patients if they become physically violent. Works in hospitals or mental health care facilities.
$31,383 / year median in Alabama
-9% projected decline
Job Description
Adam Bishop Center (ABC), 1105 7th Ave., Jasper, AL 35501 Published July 6, 2026 Category Mental Illness Children and Adolescents Job Type Part-time Position Level Entry County Walker Description Job duties include working with young teens and adults enrolled in our organization's clinical services. Will work closely with the individual's clinical team leader to implement the treatment process with the young person and their family. Must have personal experience as a child/teen ("I have lived experience") in personally receiving mental health services or child welfare and be able to appropriately disclose and share that experience with young adults, ages 10-21, in order to foster hope, build resiliency, and develop self-advocacy skills that will empower them to achieve their goals.