Medi-Cal Peer Support Specialist
Certification Questions with Complete
Solutions (Latest 2025)
HOPE - Correct Answers ✅Inspire hope in those engaging
in services by living a life of Recovery and/or Resiliency
PERSON-DRIVEN - Correct Answers ✅1. Support individuals
receiving services and their support network within the
context of the individual's worldview, to achieve their goals
based upon their needs and wants
2. Focus on self-determination, as defined by the person
engaging in services, and support the person's participation
in their own recovery
3. Inform others about options, provide information about
choices, and then respect peers' decisions
4. Encourage people to look at the options, take risks, learn
from mistakes, and grow toward healthy interdependence
with others
5. Uphold the principle of non-coercion as essential to
recovery and encourage those engaging in services to make
their own decisions, even when the person engaging in
services is under mandated treatment
6. Assist those they support to access additional resources
7. Disclose lived experiences of recovery in a way that
maintains the focus on and is beneficial to the person
engaging in services
8. Support the recovery process for the peer, allowing the
person to direct their own process
, Medi-Cal Peer Support Specialist
Certification Questions with Complete
Solutions (Latest 2025)
9. Shall not force any values or beliefs onto the person
engaging in services
10. Recognize there are many pathways to recovery that can
be very different than their own journey
FAMILY DRIVEN AND CHILD-CENTERED - Correct Answers
✅1. Promote the family member's ethical decision-making
and personal responsibility consistent with that family
member's culture, values, and beliefs
2. Respect and value the beliefs, opinions, and preferences of
children, youth, family members, parents, and caregivers in
service planning
3. Promote the family members' voices and the articulation of
their values in planning and evaluating behavioral health
related challenges or concerns
4. Support other family members as peers with a common
background and history
5. Disclose personal lived experiences of building resiliency in
a way that focuses on and is beneficial to the child, youth,
family member, parent, or caregiver engaging in services
6. Build supports on the strengths of the child, youth, family,
or caregiver
7. Build partnerships with others who are involved in the care
of our children, youth, or adult family members
8. Communicate clearly and honestly with children, youth,
family members, and caregivers
Certification Questions with Complete
Solutions (Latest 2025)
HOPE - Correct Answers ✅Inspire hope in those engaging
in services by living a life of Recovery and/or Resiliency
PERSON-DRIVEN - Correct Answers ✅1. Support individuals
receiving services and their support network within the
context of the individual's worldview, to achieve their goals
based upon their needs and wants
2. Focus on self-determination, as defined by the person
engaging in services, and support the person's participation
in their own recovery
3. Inform others about options, provide information about
choices, and then respect peers' decisions
4. Encourage people to look at the options, take risks, learn
from mistakes, and grow toward healthy interdependence
with others
5. Uphold the principle of non-coercion as essential to
recovery and encourage those engaging in services to make
their own decisions, even when the person engaging in
services is under mandated treatment
6. Assist those they support to access additional resources
7. Disclose lived experiences of recovery in a way that
maintains the focus on and is beneficial to the person
engaging in services
8. Support the recovery process for the peer, allowing the
person to direct their own process
, Medi-Cal Peer Support Specialist
Certification Questions with Complete
Solutions (Latest 2025)
9. Shall not force any values or beliefs onto the person
engaging in services
10. Recognize there are many pathways to recovery that can
be very different than their own journey
FAMILY DRIVEN AND CHILD-CENTERED - Correct Answers
✅1. Promote the family member's ethical decision-making
and personal responsibility consistent with that family
member's culture, values, and beliefs
2. Respect and value the beliefs, opinions, and preferences of
children, youth, family members, parents, and caregivers in
service planning
3. Promote the family members' voices and the articulation of
their values in planning and evaluating behavioral health
related challenges or concerns
4. Support other family members as peers with a common
background and history
5. Disclose personal lived experiences of building resiliency in
a way that focuses on and is beneficial to the child, youth,
family member, parent, or caregiver engaging in services
6. Build supports on the strengths of the child, youth, family,
or caregiver
7. Build partnerships with others who are involved in the care
of our children, youth, or adult family members
8. Communicate clearly and honestly with children, youth,
family members, and caregivers
