Specifications include, but are not limited to: The Human Services Department, Victim Services Division seeks access to qualified mental health professionals to provide grief counseling and general therapy to VSD clients or referrals (secondary victims of police interaction, homicide, vehicular fatalities, and deaths unknown). Responders must provide: 1. One-on-one, time-limited, short-term, individual counselling to clients performed in-person at the providers office or clinic, or virtually via internet conferencing application(s), addressing: a. Grief and Loss b. Traumatic Grief c. Bereavement d. Depression and Anxiety e. Feelings of guilt 2. When appropriate, group counseling, time-limited, short-term counseling may be provided as an alternative. 3. Emergency phone consultation once per calendar week between the hours of 8 am and 5 pm Monday through Friday, for up to one-half hour. 4. Proposer will return all phone messages from clients seeking help within one (1) business day. Business days being defined as Monday through Friday. 5. The first appointment with referred clients will be scheduled within seven (7) calendar days of referral. 6. Proposer will provide emergency counseling by telephone or video conferencing Monday through Friday from 8 am to 5 pm with a call back time of two hours or less. 7. Proposer will submit invoices for each month where services are provided by the 15th day of the following month using the form provided. 8. Services to be provided by licensed service providers as defined by the Arizona Board of Behavioral Health Examiners.
