Specifications include, but are not limited to: 1. Program Description: The Family FSP Program will provide comprehensive, flexible, client-driven, recovery-oriented, strength-based, trauma-informed, culturally and linguistically responsive, community-based, caregiver/child/youth-centered, family and needs driven, cost-effective quality mental health services, focused on positive outcomes. Families will have a high level of decisionmaking power and be encouraged to use their natural supports. Services will begin with the goal of wellness and stability of placement in family-style settings. The successful applicant will provide intensive outpatient services to families with at least one child under 21 years of age and their family members who require frequent contact and support to maintain in the community due to the severity of a mental illness and the complexity of their life circumstances. There must be at least one identified client of any age (with Medi-Cal insurance) in the family, who meets criteria for specialty mental health services, and consents to services. FSP Services should be provided in accordance with the California Institute for Mental Health FSP Tool Kits (Child and Family version). Services are comprehensive, and are provided in the home, community, or office depending on client and family need – using a harm reduction “whatever it takes” approach – in order to assist the family in maintaining stability in the community. The Family FSP will utilize the service delivery approaches defined in this scope of work to provide FSP full spectrum of community services to assist clients in recovery and transitioning to a lower level of care. Full spectrum of community services and mental health supports include but are not limited to: Needs assessment Individual and family services and supports plans Mental health treatment for any Medi-Cal eligible family member living in the home, including alternative and culturally specific treatments Peer support for children, caregiver(s) and other family members living in the home Supportive services to assist family members, in obtaining and maintaining employment, housing and/or education Personal service coordination/case management to assist the client and when appropriate the client’s family, to access needed medical, educational, social, vocational rehabilitative and /or other community services Including MediCal eligible family members who do not meet target population but whose participation in treatment is integral to improving overall family dynamics and functioning. For family members who need individual treatment, with private insurance, services will include intensive case management to support that family member to obtain treatment through their insurance plan and coordination efforts with any other treatment professional that affects the family system. Family systems treatment services Crisis intervention/stabilization services
