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Council praises peer navigator program; library commits to pay increases and will explore unionization
Summary
Council leaders called the peer navigator program a unique Baltimore effort; Enoch Pratt pledged to increase pay and extend grant support while council members urged steps toward unionization and protections for peer staff.
Council President Brent Cohen and Council Vice President Odette Middleton praised the Enoch Pratt Free Library’s peer navigator program, a social-impact service that places peer navigators inside library branches to help patrons with addiction recovery and related services. Cohen said the program “is unique to Baltimore” and asked library leadership to consider reclassification and unionization for peer navigators so they receive pay and protections similar to other city workers.
Will Johnson, deputy chief of outreach and mobile services for the library, said the…
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