New Hampshire opens four GO-NORTH sub-recipient solicitations
North Dakota announces its pipeline into a $50.5M push
Preview of something we’ve been working on: state resources updated weekly rather than quarterly. See also:
2026 Q2 Newsletter Activity Index: state-by state, topic-by-topic deeplinks
Q2 RFP Review / Q3 RFP Watcher: Every procurement from Q2, near-term contracting outlook, and state-by-state analysis
The 50-State RHTP Field Guide: downloadable PDF with RHT personality, program maturity, federal outlays, open procurements, engagement activity, rural geography, and contacts
In this issue
Mississippi posts a Q&A for its PES / EmPATH Units NOFO
West Virginia reopens its Health-to-Work Programs for Chronic Conditions AFA
New Hampshire opens four GO-NORTH sub-recipient solicitations
North Dakota announces its pipeline into a $50.5M push
Missouri opens IFB #DSS26015, a $40M IFB to modernize rural facilities
Wisconsin opens the Sources of Strength Project RFA
Mississippi posts a Q&A for its PES / EmPATH Units NOFO
The whole Q&A is three questions, and all three are budget mechanics — what goes in the start-up budget, what goes in the operating budget, and what the state means by “billing strategy.” No eligibility fights, no partnering probes, no out-of-state operators testing the door. That reads as a thin, insider field: the few Mississippi hospitals and community mental health centers that can actually stand up an EmPATH unit, refining line items rather than asking whether they qualify. Two answers are worth keeping — construction and renovation are explicitly allowable start-up costs (many RHTP NOFOs forbid that, so it’s a rare capital-friendly psych opportunity), and on revenue the state waved applicants off a complex billing model (bill observation codes for all payors, just track volumes and payor mix), a quiet signal it expects the grant, not billing, to carry what are structurally money-losing units.
West Virginia reopens its Health-to-Work Programs for Chronic Conditions AFA
West Virginia has done something unusual: reopened a solicitation that had already closed. The Restoring WV’s Workforce through Health-to-Work Programs for Chronic Conditions AFA (RHT-AFA-06-30-2026-HTP) — the ~$8.5M return-to-work program under WV’s Health to Prosperity pillar, released June 30 with a July 15 close — is accepting applications again through Monday, August 3 at 11:59 PM.
This one has been on our radar since WV’s pipeline deep dive: it’s the chronic-conditions half of the Health-to-Work pair, whose substance-use-disorder counterpart ($2.0M) closed July 20. The program funds liaison-based, employer-aligned return-to-work coordination — return-to-work liaisons and support for adults managing chronic conditions — applied through the wvOASIS Vendor Self Service portal.
The detail worth flagging: a reopening is not a pre-close extension. West Virginia let the July 15 deadline pass, then reopened it — which usually means the qualified-applicant pool came in thin. For anyone who can stand up return-to-work coordination, that’s a rare second window into a live RHTP dollar.
