The Wisconsin Hub for Peer Professionals (WiHPP) is a statewide resource for Wisconsin’s mental health and substance use peer professional workforce. It offers learning and networking opportunities to promote strengths-based, trauma-sensitive peer services rooted in lived experience and peer values.
The peer professional workforce includes certified peer specialists (CPS), certified parent peer specialists (CPPS), and peer recovery coaches (PRC).
WiHPP is managed by UW-Milwaukee’s Center for Innovative Transition, Education & Employment, with oversight from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS).
Commitment to Peer Values
WiHPP is committed to preserving the values and principles that make peer support unique while building the infrastructure needed for peer professionals to grow, lead, and succeed.
WiHPP partners with DHS and peer professionals to inform its programs and practices.
Lived Experience, Professional Excellence, and Stronger Communities
WiHPP recognizes lived experience as professional expertise and works to ensure peer professionals have access to high-quality training, continued professional development, and meaningful career pathways.
WiHPP supports:
- CPS and CPPS training and certification
- CEHs and professional development for all peer professionals
- Workforce development for all peer professionals
This work builds upon the supports for the peer professional workforce created by the Wisconsin Peer Specialist Employment Initiative, which closed September 30, 2026.
The WiHPP team is working with existing CPS and CPPS trainers to provide state-required training for people seeking certification. Over the next year, WiHPP expects to expand the training model so more organizations can offer CPS and CPPS courses. This includes expanding the current trainer pool through train-the-trainer sessions. Information about upcoming sessions will be shared here when it becomes available.
Peer Professional Employer Toolkit
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services has created a Peer Professional Employer Toolkit to help organizations implement peer recovery support services.