2014: The Office of Children’s Mental Health creates a family relations coordinator position. 2014: The Children’s Mental Health Collective Impact Coalition convenes, with a quarter of the membership being parents of children with mental illness and young adult peers. 2014: The consumer movement in Wisconsin identifies that the four different certified peer specialist training models approved for use in Wisconsin are not equal and none of the trainings include information on supporting a peer with substance use concerns. 2014: Forward Health Update 2014-42 states that a Comprehensive Community Services program must provide all services covered under the benefit that a member needs as determined by an assessment, including peer support. 2014: The Department of Health Services convenes a group of partners to advise work on developing a model for peer-run respites in Wisconsin. Three organizations receive funding to develop and operate peer-run respites. 2014: Wisconsin Voices for Recovery holds its first Recovery Rally at the state Capitol. 2015: The Department of Health Services decides to move toward an integrated training model for certified peer specialists, a model that includes the area of substance use, a first of its kind approach for the United States. 2016: Peers from the Department of Health Services and Access to Independence develop a pilot integrated training model for certified peer specialists. 2016: The Wisconsin Department of Health Services partners with Wisconsin Voices for Recovery to develop ED2Recovery, a program that connects people taken to an emergency department for an opioid overdose with a recovery coach. 2017: Wisconsin Voices for Recovery develops Recovery U, a free online resource for peer support providers. 2018: The Department of Health Services creates the Certified Peer Specialist Advisory Committee to advise its work on certified peer specialist and certified parent peer specialists. 2018: Wisconsin Voices for Recovery hosts trainings for recovery coaches who identify as people with lived experience to become certified peer specialists. 2018: Certified peer specialist trainings are delivered in institutions throughout the Department of Corrections. People who are incarcerated can become certified peer specialists and begin providing services within the institutions. 2019: Using the data from the pilot project and information and feedback from trainers, a team of peers from the Department of Health Services and Access to
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