Talk:Peer support specialist

Peer Specialist: Individual in recovery from severe mental illness who is receiving or has received services from the public mental health system. Because of their life experience they provide expertise that professional training cannot replicate. Individuals who are functioning as Peer Support Specialists serving beneficiaries with mental illness must meet MDCH (Michigan Department of Community Health) specialized training and certification requirements. Peer specialists who assist in the provision of a covered service must meet the aide qualifications and be trained and supervised by the qualified provider for that service. Peer Specialists who provide covered services without supervision must meet the specific provider qualifications.

from: medicade provider manual supplement http://www.michigan.gov/documents/mdch/MSA-07-52-PIHP_Bulletin_207606_7.pdf page-6 ablecore 14:17, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

References improvement called for
This article may not be eligible for inclusion in wikipedia on notability grounds, by the way. But this note to highlight that the article relies upon just one source, and it states that "incorporates text from" that source, which is itself an indication of poor referencing. If material is copied from a source, even if that source is PD, it should be put in quotation marks or block quotes to a) give proper credit to the original source, b) keep segregation between wikipedia editor writing which is implicitly asserted to reflect general, noncontroversial facts vs any controversial assertions in the copied in text, and c) to facilitate other editor work to improve the article by adding in additional sources while keeping track of which assertion is sourced by what reference. There is ongoing disagreement about what practices should be, see Talk at WP:REF.  Sincerely, doncram (talk) 08:15, 17 January 2008 (UTC)