Specifications include, but are not limited to: The Department is issuing Request for Proposal (RFP) No. 2022-004 for Youth Activities and Mental Health to contract with one or more providers of programs and services for youth and young adults in custody at the YSC-JH and/or Camp Kemp, as well as those who have been released back to their communities. Programs and services should be evidence-based and promote resiliency, emotional wellbeing, and prosocial behaviors. Examples may include, but aren’t limited to: Vocational education programs, parenting programs, job-training programs, drug and alcohol counseling, mental health, visual arts, reentry services, and post-release linkages to housing, education and employment supports for youth and young adults, including Transition Age Youth ranging in age from 16 to 25, in the juvenile justice system. Contracts will be secured through the County’s Youthful Offender Block Grant Program (YOBG) and/or the County’s Juvenile Justice Realignment Block Grant Program (JJRBG), dependent on the populations to be served. Both programs provide state funding for counties to deliver enhanced custody and care to youthful offenders who previously would have been committed to the state Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ).
