Peer Support Specialist Intake Form

Connect with Peer Support Through This Intake Form

Finding the right mental health support can be transformative, especially when it comes from someone who truly understands your journey. This Peer Support Specialist Intake Form is designed for mental health organizations, community health centers, and behavioral health programs that offer peer-led support services.

Why Peer Support Intake Forms Matter

Peer support specialists bring unique value to mental health services through their lived experience with mental health challenges and recovery. This intake form helps establish a foundation of trust and understanding by capturing essential information about an individual's journey, goals, and support needs—all while respecting their autonomy and honoring their expertise in their own recovery.

Built for Mental Health Organizations

Whether you're a community mental health center, hospital behavioral health program, nonprofit peer support network, or recovery-oriented organization, this template streamlines the intake process for peer support services. It captures recovery goals, group participation interest, crisis planning needs, and personal strengths in a respectful, person-centered way.

Streamline Intake and Follow-Up with Paperform

This template makes it easy to collect detailed intake information through a compassionate, professional form that clients can complete at their own pace. With Paperform's conditional logic, you can show relevant follow-up questions based on specific responses—such as expanding on crisis planning when indicated or gathering details about preferred group topics.

Connect this form to your client management system, send automatic confirmation emails with next steps, and use Stepper to automate your intake workflow—from assigning peer specialists to scheduling initial meetings to sending welcome packets. For programs requiring client agreements or consent forms, integrate Papersign to collect secure eSignatures on intake paperwork, keeping everything connected to the original submission.

Designed for Recovery-Oriented Care

This form honors recovery principles by focusing on strengths, goals, and personal choice rather than deficits and diagnoses. It's flexible enough to adapt to various peer support models—from one-on-one peer mentoring to group facilitation to crisis support planning—while maintaining the warmth and accessibility that makes peer support so effective.