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NRS 449A.062 - Peer support services” defined.

NV Rev Stat § 449A.062 (2019) (N/A)
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“Peer support services” means supportive services relating to mental health, an addictive disorder or substance use disorders which:

1. Do not require the person offering the supportive services to be licensed.

2. Are offered to a person in need of such services.

3. May include, without limitation:

(a) Helping to stabilize such a person;

(b) Helping such a person with recovery;

(c) Helping such a person to access community-based behavioral health care;

(d) Assisting such a person during a crisis situation or an intervention;

(e) Providing assistance with preventive care;

(f) Providing strategies and education relating to the whole health needs of such a person; and

(g) Providing encouragement, peer mentoring and training in self-advocacy and self-direction to such a person.

(Added to NRS by 2015, 2159) — (Substituted in revision for part of NRS 449.01566)

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