Parent Peer Professional Led Workforce Development

Maximum points available for this section: 25

Describe how the program requirements will be met.

• Address the needs of the population(s) of focus.
• Identify and target areas of focus across the state to provide mental health and substance use information to through parent peer professionals to strengthen and support families.
• Recruit, train, and ensure appropriate fit of peer professionals to deliver workshops and trainings within their local communities and systems of care.
• Ensure workshops and trainings are delivered statewide, reaching all types of communities including rural and urban parts of the state.
• Identify relevant topics and create workshop and training content that covers the following topics as well as others identified:
  • Emotional well-being
  • Parenting skills
  • Mental health and substance use
  • Education and employment
  • Connecting to services/resources
    • Identify and secure workforce development opportunities within Tribal nations, counties, community organizations, provider organizations, schools, etc., and secure and compensate local parent peer professional trainers to facilitate the workshop/training.
• Identify and secure workforce development opportunities within Tribal nations, counties, community organizations, provider organizations, schools, etc., and secure and compensate local parent peer professional trainers to facilitate the workshop/training.

Describe how the program will address and integrate all the following activities in one operational program.

• Identify and secure workshop and training opportunities to be delivered by parent peer professionals in their communities.
  • Process to contract with and/or compensate parent peer professional workshop/training facilitators across the state.
  • Train the trainer process to develop parent peer professionals’ knowledge and skills related to training and workshop facilitation.
• Provide workforce development opportunities to Tribal nations, counties, community-based providers, and other youth and family serving system agencies that promote the value of parent peer professionals within child and family serving systems and programs.
• Establish a statewide consultation body operated by parent peer professionals that offers consultation to families, Tribal nations, counties, community-based providers, and other youth and family serving systems and agencies.
• Expand the parent peer professional workforce in under-resourced areas of the state by coordinating with the Wisconsin Hub for Peer Professionals to host two-to-three certification trainings annually in targeted geographical areas.

Maximum points available for this section: 10

The capacity to do the work and meet the program requirements is different from the experience doing the work.

Describe capacity to implement the program design.

• New or existing staff positions, including professional licenses or peer professional certifications, that will work under this grant and the anticipated number of hours each position will work per week specific to this grant.
• Recruitment process and the anticipated timeline to hire new positions.
• Continuation of the program in the event of staff turnover.
• Resources or partnerships and their role in ensuring program success.

If subcontractor(s) will be used to perform activities to achieve program goals, describe:

• The extent of the relationship.
• How the subcontractor(s) capacity relates to the overall ability to implement this program.
• Roles, responsibilities, and expectations of the subcontractor(s).
• Experience managing and monitoring subcontractor(s).

Maximum points available for this section: 15

Describe your agency's sustainability plans when the contract term ends. Include how you will ensure services and supports continue long term. Specifically describe:

• How your agency will provide education and support related to entrepreneurialism to assist trainers to secure and provide trainings as independent contractors post grant funding to ensure continued parent peer professional led workforce development efforts.
• Efforts to integrate parent peer professionals in all aspects of youth and family serving systems of care in roles beyond service provision.

Maximum points available for this section: 15

Describe experience and/or knowledge similar to this program.

• Providing services, conducting activities, and/or fulfilling requirements.
  • Specify your agency's experience in providing services or working with parent peer professionals to carry out goals similar to those of this funding opportunity.
  • Specify your agency's experience working with children and families.
• Building relationships with and/or working with the population(s) of focus or similar population(s).
• Collecting and using data or other information to determine if efforts had an impact.
• Hiring and supervising staff with specialized knowledge, training or credentials.

If your agency will be using subcontractor(s) to perform activities to achieve program goals, describe their experience with, and/or knowledge similar to, this program:

• Providing services, conducting activities, and/or fulfilling requirements.
  • Specify their experience in providing services or working with parent peer professionals to carry out goals similar to those of this funding opportunity.
  • Specify their experience working with children and families.
• Building relationships with and/or working with the population(s) of focus or similar population(s).
• Collecting and using data or other information to determine if efforts had an impact.
• Hiring and supervising staff with specialized knowledge, training or credentials.

Describe the relevant training and professional development staff and/or subcontracted staff will receive over the anticipated total funding period.

Maximum points available for this section: 25

For each priority, describe the:

• Objectives: Measurable and time-bound efforts to achieve the priority.
• Activities: Specific steps you will take to meet the objectives.
• Timelines: When you anticipate starting and finishing each activity.
• Measurable impact: Describe how you will measure or demonstrate a desirable outcome is being achieved for the priority (for example, data source(s) or measurements that will be used, surveys of clientele, etc.).

Applicants must develop a plan that aligns with the priorities outlined in this section. The priorities represent key outcomes that Parent Peer Professional Led Workforce Development will work toward during the five-year grant period.

Priority one

Maximum points available for priority one: 5

Co-create workshops and trainings with parent peer professionals for youth, parents/caregivers, families, and youth and family serving providers based on local knowledge or skill gaps in the children’s system of care across the state. This includes providing support to parent peer professionals to develop and maintain training delivery skills through a train the trainer process.

Workshops and training include topics related to emotional well-being, parenting skills, mental health and substance use, education and employment, and connecting to services/resources. This also includes working with youth, families and local providers to identify gaps and training topics.

Priority two

Maximum points available for priority two: 5

Create and secure opportunities through networking, promotion, and marketing for parent peer professionals to deliver the co-created workshops and trainings in local communities across the state.

Priority three

Maximum points available for priority three: 5

Create and sustain workforce development opportunities with Tribal nations, counties, and other community-based agencies to promote the value of parent peer professionals.

Priority four

Maximum points available for priority four: 5

Establish a statewide parent peer professional consultation body available to provide consultation to Tribal nations, counties, and other community-based agencies on topics such as policy or program development, teaming, engagement, workforce development, etc.

Priority five

Maximum points available for priority five: 5

Expand the Certified Parent Peer Specialist (CPPS) workforce in under-resourced areas of the state by coordinating with the Wisconsin Hub for Peer Professionals to host two-to-three CPPS certification trainings annually in targeted geographical areas.

Maximum points available for this section: 10

The following documents must be submitted with the narrative response. These documents do not count toward the narrative response page limit.

• IRS Form W-9.
• Line-Item Budget (Form F-01601-C) outlining the costs for the first year.
• Letters of commitment (required from each project partner with an active role in the program). Do not include letters of support; they will not be considered.
• Organizational chart(s) that show where the program will be positioned within the organizational structure. Include what position(s) will have oversight of the program.
• Position description for each position directly involved with this program.