2022 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 449A - Care and Rights of Patients
NRS 449A.062 - Peer support services" defined. [Effective through December 31, 2021.]
"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; R 2021, 2836, 3444, effective January 1, 2022)—(Substituted in revision for part of NRS 449.01566)
