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 Respite 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 byrelapsethatrequire“more s e r v i c e s i m m e d i a t e l y ” a n d n o t c o n s e q u e n c e s o r l e s s 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.
