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As peer support roles have expanded in the delivery of mental health treatment and support services, it has become evident that individuals with serious mental illness who have had criminal justice system involvement can leverage that experience into a unique position to help engage and provide services to peers in earlier stages of recovery. As agencies have increasingly become committed to including these individuals as voluntary or paid Forensic Peer Specialists in treatment and support service teams, many have met daunting legal impediments to employment because of the very experience that makes their inclusion on these teams so valuable: criminal justice history.
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