Specifications include, but are not limited to: The Department of Health (“DOH”), Family Health Services Division, Maternal and Child Health Branch (“MCHB”), Family Strengthening and Violence Prevention Unit (“FSVPU") is requesting proposals from qualified applicants to provide services utilizing the Parent Café model. The Parent Cafés are physically and emotionally safe spaces where parents and caregivers talk about the challenges and victories of raising a family. Participants explore their strengths, learn about protective factors, and create strategies from their own wisdom and experiences to help strengthen their families. The FSVPU is seeking the expertise of an organization or agency based in Hawaii to provide services to families utilizing the Parent Café model to promote the protective factors that strengthen families and contribute to the prevention of family violence, abuse and neglect. 1. Develop a recruitment strategy, including designing and printing a promotional flyer/brochure to engage parents/caregivers. 2. Facilitate at least twenty (20) virtual Parent Café sessions that provide a place for families with children to discuss the challenges of parenting children, developmentally appropriate parenting strategies, and applying the protective factors in the lives of parents/caregivers. 3. Provide opportunities for child developmental screening to participants. 4. Identify, develop and implement an evaluation tool to assess the program’s effectiveness in reflecting and building the protective factors. 5. Provide a final report to DOH on the number of parents/caregivers participating in Parent Cafés, the number of Parent Café sessions offered to parents/caregivers, and evaluation data looking at the program's efficacy. The final report shall also include a narrative concerning successes, challenges, and plans for future activities. 6. Schedule and engage in monthly virtual meetings with FSVPU to discuss plans, progress, outcomes and challenges of the Parent Café program facilitated by the Bidder.
