RFP-LE-2013.071 - 2013.071 Youth Intervention Program Services

Summary of Specifications:
The goal of the Youth Intervention Program is to provide a quality, intensive, community-based service to adjudicated or non-adjudicated youth, identified by Adams County Human Services as having behavioral problems that threaten the stability of their family and place them at risk for out-of-home placement. The strength of this program lies in the unification of efforts of the social services system and the criminal justice system with community-based services. 

The expected outcome of this program will be the reduction of out-of-home placements for youth who are beyond the control of their parents. This program must be evidence based. Each program must demonstrate decreases in residential placement, out-of-state placements and hospitalizations. Although cost savings is a valuable outcome, the real value comes with the outcome of families remaining intact and being strengthened by the program’s interventions.