Request For Proposal
Award Period: October 1, 2024 – September 30, 2025
Wisconsin Voices for Recovery
ED2Recovery+
PROPOSAL NUMBER: ED2R2425-A
Award Period: 10/01/2024 thru 09/30/2025
ISSUE DATE: 6/13/2024
DUE DATE: 8/5/2024
5:00 PM CST/CDT (electronic time stamp)
AGENT: Wisconsin Voices for Recovery
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Summary of Project:
Wisconsin Voices for Recovery (WVR), at the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health (DFMCH), will continue to oversee the ED2 Recovery+ program through regrant awards to organizations who will offer peer support services by recovery coaches or certified peer specialists. These services are currently occurring in several hospital sites statewide offering referrals, support, and follow up for treatment and recovery to individuals that have experienced an opioid or stimulant overdose. Recovery coaches and certified peer specialists may also offer services outside of emergency department settings including destinations where an individual may have experienced and opioid or stimulant overdose including and not limited to EMT services, first responders, public health departments, probation and parole offices, law enforcement, and treatment and/or recovery centers. This statewide peer support network will function as a portion of the State Opioid Response and/or American Rescue Plan Act. The ultimate goal of the program is to unite treatment systems to promote peer support services that will:
(1) Decrease the number of overdose fatalities in Wisconsin
(2) Increase treatment and recovery support service utilization of the target population
(3) Reduce Emergency Department admissions due to overdoses
(4) Provide peer support services in community settings
(5) Be a sustainable and collaborative peer support network
Required Qualifications:
To be considered for this contract award, applying organizations must meet all of the following requirements:
(1) Recipients must be a public or non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization or qualify as a state, local, or tribal government located in the state of Wisconsin and must assure adherence to state and federal law and SOR and/or ARPA Grant requirements. SOR grant requirements include GPRA data collection.
(2) Include peers in management, service delivery, Board of Directors, and/or advisory capacity
(3) Have liability insurance* or include purchase of liability insurance as part of the use of grant funds
(4) Recipients of this funding must NOT have previously received SOR funding through WI Voices for Recovery ED2Recovery+ Program
*Portion of award can be used to purchase liability insurance for award period; must include documentation that insurance is quoted and agent will be setting up insurance prior to initiation of service delivery
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