Specifications include, but are not limited to:Delaware Health and Social Services, Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health (DSAMH), is seeking proposals from qualified providers to provide Personal Care Services for adults throughout the State. DSAMH subscribes to the beliefs, substantiated by research, that: Alcoholism, drug dependence, mental illnesses and compulsive gambling are treatable medical conditions that individuals can and do recover from if provided access to care and evidence-based practice interventions. DE also sees these illnesses as primarily physiological chronic disease states that require both timely interventions as well as the understanding that these conditions are characterized by relapse that require “more services immediately” and not consequences or less services. Recovery from mental illness, compulsive gambling, and substance use conditions, is our overall goal and must be an expectation of DSAMH state and provider services. All individuals in need of any type of health services are unique. Clients, and their families, reflect the diversity of our communities, including differences in ethnicity, socioeconomic status, education, religion, geographic location, age, sexual orientation, and disability. Treatment services and supports for Substance Use Disorders (SUD) and Mental Health (MH) conditions benefit the individual client and his or her family, but also public health, public safety, and the public purse. Successful treatment begins with accessible services and good customer service that reflects staff’s personalized engagement in assisting the client and any significant others. Treatment should be timely, affordable, and of sufficient intensity and duration to be effective. It should be provided in a welcoming, safe, and accessible environment.
