All correspondence must be made through the Vendor Portal. Specifications include, but are not limited to: Applicant to provide curriculum that will be used in the following service activities that will be reflective of the use of evidence based, best practices. Each circuit individually reserves the right to purchase only a component of any listed service activity based on availability of funds and need. 1. Batterers Intervention Programs (BIPs). Specific domestic violence intervention services to offenders must follow the guidelines in the current “Hawaii Batterers Program Standards”. All offender programs must utilize recognized effective “best-practice” interventions based on current knowledge and research, and be presented in culturally appropriate and gender relevant ways. The proposed services must describe how identification of criminogenic risk needs will be made, and addressed in the curriculum. Batterer groups should ideally have no more than 16 to 24 participants (unless otherwise designated or approved by the circuit) and be led by facilitators of each gender. All BIPs must include a component to address the safety of the victim. This must include an assessment of risk, with appropriate action to be taken based on such assessment, and victim contact, for the purpose of providing program information, enhancing victim safety, and referral to victim support and other services, as needed. 2. Services to Children Who Experience Domestic Violence. Domestic violence intervention services designed to assist adolescents charged with HRS 709-906, abuse of family and household members, and/or adolescents involved in dating violence. Services to children may also include supervised child visitation centers in all circuits, (the counties of Hawaii, Maui, and Kauai). Proposed services must describe the following: a) the safeguards used to provided for the safety of children and parents during visits or exchanges, b) training and minimum qualifications of staff, c) supervision of staff, and d) the provider’s affiliation, or proposed affiliation, with a state and/or national supervised visitation network.