Specifications include, but are not limited to: Group Home Care (GHC) provides 24-hour/7-days a week care and supervision to youth in the juvenile justice system who are unable to live in their homes of origin or in other family-based care. GHC is designed to achieve the safety, stability, permanency, and wellbeing (e.g., physical and behavioral health, educational, recreational, and relational needs) for each youth. Providers must ensure the ongoing youth development and ageappropriate preparation for youth and strive to maintain healthy and strong connections to the youth’s family, school and community. This service is designed to provide placement in a safe, clean living environment, with an emphasis on strengthening family connections and providing quality structured programming, groups, leisure and recreational activities in the youth’s community of origin, whenever possible, medical services, sexual health supports and information, and service coordination support. The components of GHC service include standardized screenings (including screening for trauma exposure and traumatic stress symptoms), behavioral health assessments, crisis management and intervention, youth development, therapeutic services (including trauma-informed groups providing psychoeducation around trauma and its impact and coping skills to manage trauma reminders), service linkage (if appropriate), school connections, and case collaboration with the JPO. Throughout the GHC service, the provider will engage the family and team of professionals to ensure that youth either safely returns home or transition to placement with kin in their communities of origin whenever possible. Placement in non-kin foster care is reserved as a last resort and must be minimally utilized only after reunification and kinship care have been fully ruled out.