Digital Peer Support Self-Guided Workbook

Certified Digital Peer Support Specialists

A Certified Digital Peer Support Specialist is a trained peer supporter with expertise in digital peer support technologies such as smartphone apps, digital analytical techniques such as digital phenotyping, and practical issues like accessing free or low-cost technologies, privacy and ethics, and informed consent.

Digital peer support supports recovery, is built on the evidence, and has been shown scientifically to increase the capacity of peer support specialists and service users to engage technologies– leading to better mental health, physical health, and social health outcomes. Certification to become a Digital Peer Support Specialist meets SAMHSA’s criteria for recovery-based practice and the core competencies of peer support.