Specifications include, but are not limited to: Program Design – A prevention program to provide behavioral health interventions and education to increase emotional wellness and resilience and reduce the need for longer-term counseling services, hospitalizations, or significant impairments to activities of daily living for Aramark employees and their families and/or caregivers. The Prevention Program must identify the types, problems, and needs that the activities are intended to address to bring about mental health and related functional outcomes, including reduction of the negative outcomes for individuals with early onset of potentially serious mental illness. The proposal must outline evidence-based standards to measure the program’s effectiveness and describe how this standard would help reduce negative outcomes. Project Objectives – Prevention is a set of related activities to reduce risk factors for developing a potentially serious mental illness and to build protective factors. The goal of this Program is to bring about mental health, including the reduction of the applicable negative outcomes, which negative outcomes result from untreated mental illness for individuals and members of groups or populations whose risk of developing a serious mental illness is greater than average. An ancillary goal of this program is to unburden parents, caregivers, and other family members from the consequences of negatives outcomes. Negative outcomes include suicide, incarceration, school failure or dropout, unemployment, prolonged suffering, homelessness, and removal of children from their homes. Risk factors for mental illness include conditions or experiences associated with a greater-than-average risk of developing a potentially serious mental illness. Risk factors include, but are not limited to, biological, including family history and neurological, behavioral, social/economic, and environmental. Examples of risk factors include, but are not limited to, a serious chronic medical condition, adverse childhood experiences, experience of severe trauma, ongoing stress, exposure to drugs or toxins in the womb, poverty, family conflict or domestic violence, experiences of racism and social inequality, prolonged isolation, traumatic loss, having a previous mental illness, a previous suicide attempt, or having a family member with a serious illness. Prevention Programs may include relapse prevention for individuals in recovery from a serious mental illness. Other prevention activities may be included if there is evidence to suggest the activity is an effective method for individuals and members of groups or populations whose risk of developing a serious mental illness is greater than average. Prevention programs must measure the reduction of prolonged suffering. Individuals Served – Must identify program participants' risk of a potentially serious mental illness, either based on individual risk or membership in a group or population with greater than average risk of a serious mental illness, i.e., the condition, experience, or behavior associated with greater than average risk. Must identify the risk of a potentially serious mental illness that will be defined and determined, i.e., what criteria and process to use to establish that the intended beneficiaries of the program have a greater than average risk of developing a potentially severe mental illness. The program's target population shall include Aramark employees and their families and/or caregivers within all age groups.
