Iowa Department of Human Services RFP MHDS 15-006 Seeking Peer Support Training and Coordination

The Iowa Department of Human Services (DHS) released this request for proposals (RFP) to build the peer support and family support peer specialist workforce. Peer support services are delivered by people with lived experience with serious and persistent mental illness (SPMI) who are in recovery. Family support peer services are for parents or caregivers of children with severe emotional disturbance (SED). The contract was awarded to the University of Iowa’s Center for Child Health Improvement and Innovation and its National Resource Center for Family Centered Practice. The contract has an initial one-year term that runs through February 12 . . .