Specifications include, but are not limited to: Qualified community-based organizations with nonprofit, tax-exempt status pursuant to Section 501(c)(3) of the IRS Code, to provide the following: Supportive Therapeutic Options Program. Children with socio/emotional health issues that place them at risk of coming to the attention of the Child Welfare System should have access to the benefits of behavioral health services, regardless of their Medi-Cal eligibility or other reasons they are unable to access needed services under existing funding arrangements. In particular, children exiting the foster care child welfare system or returning home from out of home care should benefit from behavioral health services that are costly both in fiscal and human terms. Further, when out-of-home placements terminate, services to the child typically end. Although the child’s return to the home would often benefit from continued services, there is little to no ability to continue the services that would support successful transitions (in-home family counseling, on-going education and recreational services for the child). Consequently, this transition is not successful for many families and the child is removed again and returned to outof-home care. This result is detrimental to the child’s well-being and costly. The Supportive Therapeutic Options Program (STOP) funding is for children who are not MediCal eligible and those for whom services are available but not accessible.