Opportunity Overview
Maine DHHS, Office of Behavioral Health, maintains an active Willing & Qualified contracting pathway for A Safer Place (Baxter Related). The current service period runs through December 31, 2027 and supports specialized outpatient mental-health care for eligible former students of the Maine School for the Deaf / Governor Baxter School for the Deaf.
Service Scope
The program provides professional mental-health services in the communication modality most readily understood by the eligible consumer, consistent with the Baxter-related statutory and settlement framework. Eligible consumers select clinicians from the willing-and-qualified provider pool, and the contract is structured to cover qualifying out-of-pocket service costs not otherwise paid by insurance.
Current Funding and Providers
The controlling PJF cover lists $166,083.84, while the attached eight-provider schedule totals $164,455.20. Atlas preserves both State-published figures because the source does not reconcile the difference. The eight incumbents are Lori Tully, Sara L. Treat, National Deaf Therapy, Echo Dixon, Maine Deaf Counseling, Shana Kelley-Cohen, Deaf Multicultural Counseling, and Heather Hunt PhD LLC. They are incumbents, not unsent applicants for this exact opportunity.
Eligibility and Qualification Requirements
Providers must be willing and qualified mental-health clinicians, including independently licensed clinical social workers and clinical professional counselors where applicable, with specialized capacity to serve eligible Baxter consumers. The PJF particularly identifies American Sign Language proficiency and specialized outpatient mental-health service capability. Consumer choice within the qualified provider pool is a material feature of the pathway.
Atlas Relevance
This is a specialized behavioral-health and disability-access pathway, but the controlling PJF does not establish telehealth infrastructure, remote diagnostic technology, or N9+ costs as allowable. Dr. Miltie does not appear to be a viable direct prime provider because the required independent clinical licensure, communication-modality expertise, and specialized mental-health service capacity are not established.
Next Action
Treat the eight named clinicians/providers as incumbents. For any prospective additional clinician or organization, verify current W&Q availability, applicable independent clinical licensure, ASL/communication-modality capability, Baxter-population qualification, contract terms, and funding availability before applying CRM, Atlas_Email_Queue, Email Opt-Out, sent-history, reply, bounce, approval, deadline, and exact-opportunity deduplication controls.
Official source: Maine Division of Procurement Services, CT NOI 0420260242 / RQS 20260121ASAFERPLACEB.