Opportunity Overview
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services Division of Care and Treatment Services is seeking applications to expand and sustain parent peer professionals as subject matter experts who strengthen local systems of care and engage youth and families statewide. The program emphasizes parent-peer-led training, workforce development, statewide consultation, and expansion of the Certified Parent Peer Specialist workforce in under-resourced areas.
Funding and Deadline
DHS estimates one award of $339,000 per year, for total anticipated funding of $1,695,000 over five years. No match is required. Written questions are due September 23, 2026 at 11:59 p.m., and applications are due October 28, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. The public DHS solicitation does not state a time zone, so Atlas does not infer one.
Eligible Applicants
Eligible applicants are federally recognized Tribal nations sharing boundaries with Wisconsin, nonprofit organizations providing services to people in Wisconsin, and Wisconsin public agencies. Applicants must operate in accordance with Wis. Stat. § 46.54 and meet all eligibility requirements when they apply.
Program Priorities
The funded organization must build parent-peer-led workshops and trainings, create local opportunities for parent peer professionals to deliver them, strengthen workforce-development relationships with Tribal nations, counties and community organizations, establish a statewide parent peer professional consultation body, and expand the Certified Parent Peer Specialist workforce in under-resourced areas.
N9+ / QC Healthcare Analysis
Atlas Opportunity Score: 83/100. This is a substantial statewide behavioral-health and family-support workforce opportunity with a five-year term, but it is specialized around parent peer professional infrastructure, training and consultation.
N9+ Direct Vendor Fit: 0/100. QC Healthcare Fit: 0/100. The current solicitation does not establish a material connected clinical-device, telehealth-platform or physician-coverage purchasing pathway. Atlas therefore should publish and track the opportunity but should not generate N9+/QC applicant outreach absent a later controlling amendment or applicant-specific scope that lawfully creates such a pathway.
Application Requirements
Applications require a narrative response of no more than 10 pages plus required documents including IRS Form W-9, the first-year Line-Item Budget (Form F-01601-C), letters of commitment from active project partners, organizational chart(s), and position descriptions for positions directly involved in the program. Applications are submitted to the DHS email address identified in the official solicitation.
Verified source: Wisconsin Department of Health Services, current solicitation posted September 3, 2026 and reverified September 6, 2026.