Opportunity Overview
Maine DHHS, Office of Behavioral Health, maintains an active Willing & Qualified pathway for Out-of-State Room & Board supporting Maine youth who require specialized residential treatment that the Department states is not available in Maine. The current agreements run from July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2028.
Service Population and Scope
The controlling PJF describes youth with intellectual, developmental, and physical disabilities; vision or hearing impairments; complex medical conditions; behavioral challenges; and trauma-related needs. Many require the highest level of residential treatment because of severe aggression or risk of serious injury. Each placement provides 24-hour residential care plus intensive therapeutic and educational support intended to address mental-health, emotional, developmental, behavioral, and trauma-related needs while strengthening communication and supporting return to a less restrictive setting when possible.
Current Funding and Providers
The current State schedule totals $3,041,055.90 across 15 incumbent out-of-state provider agreements. The PJF also states a standard room-and-board daily rate of $51.94 per youth. Current listed providers are Easter Seals; Seven Hills New Hampshire Inc.; Vermont Permanency Initiative Inc.; Piney Ridge Treatment Center LLC; Hillcrest Educational Centers; Habilitation Center LLC; Lakeland Hospital Acquisition; Youth Villages; Mount Prospect Academy; Stetson School; SP Behavioral LLC; Brookhaven Treatment and Learning; American School for the Deaf at Hartford; Mentor ABI LLC; and Whitney Academy Inc.
Canonical Source Control
Maine published two materially duplicative W&Q records for this same service, CT NOI 0720260517 and CT NOI 0720260564. Both show the same service dates, total projected value, daily rate, service narrative, and 15-provider schedule. Atlas treats them as one canonical underlying opportunity and uses the later CT NOI 0720260564 as the current controlling source. The earlier 0720260517 approval page notes that the Easter Seals agreement exceeded $1 million and required additional review; the later record carries the subsequent State approval.
Eligibility and Qualification Controls
The PJF establishes that the services require highly specialized residential capacity for Maine youth whose needs cannot currently be met in-state. It does not separately enumerate a complete license or certification checklist for a new provider. Any prospective provider therefore must have its exact current W&Q qualification requirements, licensing, staffing, program capability, contracting documentation, and funding availability verified directly with the State before Atlas treats it as eligible.
Atlas Relevance
This is a significant pediatric behavioral-health, complex-care, disability, and special-populations pathway, but the controlling source does not establish telehealth, remote diagnostic technology, or N9+ equipment as an allowable cost. The State specifically says the specialized services are not available in Maine, so Atlas does not create a Maine cold-applicant queue from this record. The incumbent out-of-state providers remain vendor intelligence, not unsent Maine applicants.
Next Action
Treat all 15 named organizations as incumbents for the current agreements. Do not begin Maine applicant outreach from this pathway on the current evidence. If a new provider is independently identified, verify current W&Q acceptance, exact qualification requirements, licensing, clinical and educational staffing, service capacity, funding availability, and all CRM and Atlas_Email_Queue deduplication and send gates before any outreach or record creation.
Official source: Maine Division of Procurement Services, CT NOI 0720260564, Out of State: Room & Board.