Evidence reported that peer team members' knowledge, street smarts, and personal experience with mental health treatment and homelessness was essential to the service.

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* Experience with mental health service delivery system
* Stable and in recovery
* Not current substance abuser or dependent

Characteristics of peer providers

Solomon, P. (2004). Peer support/peer provided services underlying processes, benefits, and critical ingredients. Psychiatric rehabilitation journal, 27(4), 392. https://doi.org/10.2975/27.2004.392.401

Peer support/peer provided services underlying processes, benefits, and critical ingredients.

Experience with mental health service delivery system

Peer providers need to be stable or in a state of recovery because they function as positive role models and upward comparisons for others. 

Stable and in recovery

Peer providers cannot be current substance abusers, for they do not offer a positive role model for others. 

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