Specifications include, but are not limited to: Provide a 12 week intensive development program highlighting parenting education with a focus on enhancing parenting skills as well as developing a healthy and supportive family base. All family members are encouraged to participate in both individual and group settings with an emphasis on improving parental protective capacities. This program will assist families in both reunification of their children who are in foster care as well as an element for families to maintain children in their home and avoid placement. In addition, a component of the program must assist client families who are dealing with substance abuse issues. Provider will need to assess each family to determine a family development plan, which will include each individual’s strengths, areas of development, need for referrals to other services (anger management, drug and alcohol, mental health, domestic violence, etc.) and set out goals for each family. The provider must include outcome measures to determine the success of their program and the progress of each family. Provider is asked to submit in their proposal an outline of program details and hours of their proposed program.