Recovery Peer Specialist and Advocate
Jacksonville, Florida Area
- Current
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- Director at Empowerment First, Inc.
- Content Writer at Fuel My Blog
- Advisory Council Member at Medical Home for Homeless Children's Project MHHCP
- Owner and Administrator at homelessinjax.com (Sole Proprietorship)
- Past
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- Director at Emergency Services & Homeless Coalition of Jacksonville, Inc
- Stock Clerk at Caterpillar
- Senior Consultant at America Online Technologies
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- Education
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- Florida Community College at Jacksonville
- Tidewater Community College
- U.S. Army Administrative School
- Connections
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- Industry
- Program Development
- Websites
John Cribbs’s Summary
Combined with varied experiences including service administration, education, and end user support my career has now gone in the direction of the medical profession.
Currently I'm seeking Florida State Certification as a professional Recovery Peer Specialist to provide support and services to clients receiving such from local non-profit agencies serving the mentally ill.
This is a unique field I've chosen to specialize in, and is at the core root of what's claimed by politicians: medical care reform.
While I don't believe that medical services should be consumer controlled, I do feel that clinicians aren't capable to offer hope to their clients pursuing successful recovery.
Overcoming debilitating symptoms while living through Bipolar Disorder is something many aren't able to experience first hand. Having done and continuing to do so, I'm able to provide hope that change is possible.
Recovery Peer Specialists work one on one with their peer clients, to find what the peer wants rather than what clinicians believe they need or can accomplish as goals.
The best example is asking "When is a mental patient ready and able to go work". The answer is simple, yet the majority of service providers can't answer it correctly due to minimizing the very people they're required and sworn to serve.
"When they say they want to work".
John Cribbs’s Specialties:
Logic flow, peer support services, IT support, IS support, end user service, project development, non-profits
John Cribbs’s Experience
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Director
Empowerment First, Inc.
(Consumer Services industry)
October 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)
Developing a non profit agency providing advocacy and critique of existing and needed services to residents experiencing homelessness in Jacksonville, Florida.
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Content Writer
Fuel My Blog
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
June 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)
Guest writer of a unique Blog Community. Each blog is personally screened by Kevin and Sylvie Dixie for membership, to prevent spam or professional websites. Currently at around 10,000 members, I was one of the first 300 when it was just a clunky bunch of HTML.
Small blogs are able to be featured and chosen by their peers by democratic vote to be seen on it's web portal entry page, it's community blog, and receive benefits that grow exponentially each month. -
Advisory Council Member
Medical Home for Homeless Children's Project MHHCP
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
September 2004 — Present (5 years 3 months)
Providing input and consumer perspective to service providers with clients experiencing homelessness and behavioral disorders in Jacksonville, Florida.
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Owner and Administrator
homelessinjax.com (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Internet industry)
August 2004 — Present (5 years 4 months)
Site owner of Jacksonville's first website dedicated strictly to the interests of people experiencing homelessness, as opposed to businesses in the interest of saying what homeless people experience.
Additional Information
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John Cribbs’s Interests:
wrt54g, linksys, recovery peer support, advocate, wordpress, homeless, non-profit, management, reverse engineering,
John Cribbs’s Groups:
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