All Sections of the SOW are required Contract services. Use this Proposal outline as part of your response to the RFP by restating each Section number and then providing your response. Keep in mind, the evaluators will be scoring your Proposal based on the methodologies proposed and the completeness of the response to each item listed below. Describe how you will meet each requirement marked (ME) Mandatory Evaluated and (E) Evaluated by describing, in detail, your organization’s qualification and experience (rather than simply restating the question or confirming compliance without additional supporting information); as well as how your organization plans to meet SOW requirements detailed in this RFP. The Proposal should address methodologies, pertinent timelines, personnel, activities, and other pertinent information in order to implement the SOW successfully to achieve full compliance with all tasks and deliverables. Offerors must identify any information or resources needed from the Department in order to perform any of the work. By providing a response to this Solicitation, you affirm you agree to and will comply with the following requirements. I. General Requirements A. The Contractor must: 1. Comply with the rules, regulations and policies as outlined by the Department's, Region 6 Child, Youth, and Family Services and Standard for Working with Older Youth https://publicdocuments.dhw.idaho.gov/WebLink/Browse.aspx?id=30&dbid=0&repo=PUBLIC-DOCUMENTS&cr=1 . 2. Ensure all staff having any contact with family meet the requirements of IDAPA 16.05.06, Rules Governing Mandatory Criminal History Checks. 3. Ensure staff providing services under the Contract have at a minimum, a bachelors degree in social work, and possesses a valid social work license. 4. Ensure staff has sufficient automobile insurance coverage to allow for transportation of clients in their vehicles. a. The Contractor must provide documentation to the Contract Monitor of appropriate insurance coverage for each worker per year. B. Ownership of Information: The Department and the United States Department of Health and Human Services must have unlimited rights to own, possess, use, disclose, transfer, or duplicate all information and data, copyrighted or otherwise, developed, derived, documented or furnished by the Contractor under the contract. II. (E) Independent Living Skills (ILS) and Case Management Services Describe how you will meet the requirements below. A. The Contractor must: 1. Provide ILS and support services for all referred youth/young adults of eligible age as defined in IDAPA 16.06.01.011.09 and as defined in the Department Policy and Standard highlighted in the Standard for Working with Older Youth. This must include ILS and case management services for former foster care youth/young adults within the age range of fourteen to twenty-three (14-23) as determined by the Department to be eligible for Independent Living (IL) services; ILS workshops and Foster Youth and Alumni In-Care (FYI) groups for current IL eligible foster care youth within the age range of fourteen to twenty-three (14-23); and transitioning youth age seventeen and a half (17.5) that are still in foster care but are transitioning out of care. The Contractor must: a. Contact youth within five (5) business days of the Department's referral to begin to assess youth's needs, develop a plan to address deficits by building skills, providing educational experiences, providing case management and assistance to navigate systems as appropriate. b. Explain Eligibility: being in foster care for more than ninety (90) cumulative calendar days after the age of fourteen (14), explaining service options based on their age and the eligibility for various services, what they qualify for and can access for these services, how IL services can assist them to increase their skill sets and the support being offered to the youth until they are twenty-three (23) years of age. The Contractor must assess for foster youth eligibility including: i. Being in foster care for more than ninety (90) cumulative calendar days after the age of fourteen (14), aging out of care (residential, foster home, group home, or relative foster home: Education and Training Voucher (ETV), room and board, IL case management, IL workshops, FYI Group, and Medicaid to age twenty-six (26). Explain the different services available to the youth that “age out” of care. ii. Being in foster care for more than ninety (90) cumulative calendar days after the age of fourteen (14) and not “aging out” due to returning to parent/guardian, or being adopted: IL case management, IL workshops, and FYI Group; or iii. Being in foster care for more than ninety (90) cumulative calendar days after the age of fourteen (14) and not “aging out” due to still in foster care but not yet eighteen (18) years of age: IL workshops, and FYI Group. c. Offer services per age group: i. Ages fourteen through seventeen (14-17): Must receive IL case management and must be maintained with the Department’s case worker unless approved by the Regional Program Manager. The Contractor will be sent referrals for the completion of the Ansel Casey Assessment and must work with the Department case worker to develop the IL case plan. The Contractor must participate in the transition meetings outlined in the Standard for Working with Older Youth linked above in section I.A.1. ii. Ages eighteen through twenty-three (18-23): Case management services will be referred to the Contractor for all IL services found in the Department’s IDAPA Policy and Standards linked above in I.A.1. 2. Administer the ILS Casey Life Skills Assessment (CLSA) instrument https://publicdocuments.dhw.idaho.gov/WebLink/Browse.aspx?id=30&dbid=0&repo=PUBLIC-DOCUMENTS&cr=1 with referred youth, foster parents and/or others as requested/needed when referred by the Department. 3. Facilitate the completion of the ILS CLSA instrument within thirty (30) calendar days of the referral (if needed), involving the youth, foster parent(s) and/or other individuals as requested. The Contractor must: a. Submit the CLSA and IL plan to the IL Coordinator. b. Renew the CLSA and IL plan yearly, submitting both updates to the IL Coordinator each time. 4. Coordinate service and activities to facilitate completion of referred youth's IL plan, including, but not limited to: a. Participating in a transitional meeting with the Department, youth, and other individuals, at the referral point of each case. b. Coordinating services and activities to facilitate completion of a referred youth's individual service plan, based on specific youth's needs. c. Facilitating the access of IL funds via Regional IL Coordinator, as necessary and appropriate, by gaining an approved voucher signed by the Department IL Coordinator or designee. d. Developing and documenting in the Department’s Ensuring Safety and Permanency in Idaho (ESPI) database IL Service Plans for all non-foster care youth within thirty (30) calendar days of referral using all required domains as outlined in the Department's Standard for Working with Older Youth as provided by the Department. e. Reviewing IL plans quarterly with the Department, youth and/or other appropriate persons.
