RFP for Community-Led and Community-Operated Informal Mental Health Supports

The Department of Human Services (DHS), on behalf of Allegheny County, sought Proposals from qualified Proposers to create or expand Informal Mental Health Supports offered by Community-Led and Community-Operated organizations. Informal Mental Health Supports are non-medical supports for mental health provided by peers, friends and family, religious leaders or other non-health professionals. Proposers proposed Informal Mental Health Supports that: increased the availability of preventative and proactive supports that individuals or families can use for mental health and wellbeing; smoothed pathways to more formal services; broadened the ways in which people connect to care; and/or reduced both stigma and crises. Proposed Informal Mental Health Supports is hereafter referred to as a Project.