Specifications include, but are not limited to: The County of San Diego invites community input into an upcoming procurement for services to support adult survivors and victims of human trafficking. The planned services would assist anyone in San Diego County who has participated in or been victimized by exploitive or coercive labor or commercial sex work, including justice-involved individuals re-entering the community. Initial program services shall include outreach and jail in-reach to build trust and engage with and enroll clients who are victims of human trafficking in peer support navigation services. Services shall include transportation from custody to housing and providing or coordinating transportation to and from appointments as needed. Contractor shall provide client assessments and case plans and warm handoffs and client advocacy with housing providers, service providers, and others. Contractor shall assist the individual client in learning to independently access and navigate systems and support networks to meet their individual needs over time. This process will include helping clients identify and meet individualized goals, build skills, and develop clients’ own sense of purpose, agency, competency, and well-being. Assistance in engaging and accessing emergency needs, housing, mental health treatment, substance use treatment, health resources, educational services, benefits, legal services, family services, and other resources shall be part of the service navigation activities. Multiple linkages and placements to repeated services may be necessary, as participants may leave services and require re-engagement over the course of time in the program. Client contacts shall be based on client preferences and needs; meetings and contacts a may be more frequent needs in the initial period of the program and become less frequent through time as clients become engaged in other services or support networks. For clients with housing needs, program services shall include housing supports and navigation, with options available for emergency and transitional housing, and assistance with obtaining housing without and end date. By the end of a full period of program enrollment, which may be up to a year, clients should be stably housed, connected to social support networks, engaged in healthcare and mental healthcare and other services as needed, have a stable source of income, and have educational, employment, or personally-defined goals to support ongoing health, stability, fulfillment, safety and freedom from exploitation and abuse. Participants may participate in aftercare and ongoing support groups and networking events provided by the Contractor to bolster their achievements and personal networks.
