Specifications include, but are not limited to: The Department of Human Services (DHS), Child Welfare Services (CWS) is seeking proposals for one (1) Provider to provide Young Children with Special Health Care Needs Services on Oahu to children from birth through age five (5) who have complex medical conditions and need specialized supervision and care for up to one (1) year. The children shall be under the placement responsibility of CWS. This service shall allow young children with complex medical conditions to be placed in resource caregiver homes in the community until they are stabilized and able to transition into less intensive care by returning home or being placed in other substitute placements if there are no plans for reunification. The Provider shall be capable of licensing the needed resource caregiver homes to provide the specialized care for these children. 1. The safety of children is the paramount concern that shall guide all child welfare services. Child safety shall be the paramount concern when making service provision, placement, and permanency planning decisions. 2. Service activities shall be competent; culturally appropriate; responsive to the strengths, needs, values, and preferences of the child and family; and delivered in a manner that is respectful of and builds on the strengths of the family, the community, and cultural ties. Service activities shall address the physical, social, emotional, and educational needs of the child and the family’s ability to protect the child. 3. Service activities shall be individualized, addressing the unique capacities and needs of each child and family. 4. Service activities shall empower families to help themselves and to gain and maintain mastery and control over their ability to protect their children. When it is safe and reasonable to do so the resource caregivers under this contract shall work directly with the families of origin of the children to promote the children returning to the care of their families as soon as safely possible.