The department is seeking the services of a contractor(s) to provide sex offender treatment and management services in Juneau, Alaska. The existing program offers cognitive behavioral specific sex offender treatment to individuals (male and female) convicted of a sexual offense. This intense treatment program can take from 18 to 24 months for participants to complete. The contractor is projected to have a case load of approximately 12 offenders. The offeror will work directly with the Probation Officer IIIs in the Juneau Probation Office, other department staff at the probation office, and the Sex Offender Management Program (SOMP) Project Manager (Anchorage Central Office) retains overall responsibility for establishing and monitoring contract funding, referrals for sex offender treatment, and program priorities. Services will be provided in person. The contractor will also provide sex offender treatment services to sex offenders who have been released on electronic monitoring/furlough from incarceration (EM). For those sex offenders on EM, the EM/Institutional Probation Officer will work directly with the contractor and SOMP Project Manager. Telehealth (preferred format is Microsoft Teams, but other platforms may be utilized) will be authorized on a case-by-case basis with extenuating circumstances and must be approved prior to enrollment in treatment by the SOMP Project Manager. The successful offeror will be part of a multi-disciplinary team that has incorporated principles of the Containment Model, including polygraph assessment, into treatment plans. A trained professional under a separate contract will provide polygraph assessments. The contractor will be expected to be an expert on sex offender treatment and make recommendations on sex offenders in the program regarding amenability to treatment, need for further treatment, and risk to reoffend. Treatment services are to be provided as specified in the DOC Standards of Sex Offender Management (Standards). These services may include intake/assessment, individual and family counseling, group counseling, high risk educational classes, denial groups, and program consultation services as needed or as required by statute(s) or the department. In addition to the basic assessment and treatment services specified in the Standards, the contract treatment provider will be expected to provide clinical expertise in consultations with the polygraph examiner and to incorporate knowledge gained through the polygraph into treatment. Offerors must propose to provide services that meet the minimum requirements in this RFP. Services in excess of those established by the department (or in excess of those approved under the finalized contract) must be approved in writing and in advance by the department.
