Specifications include, but are not limited to: DFPS has identified the need to provide community-based care services in a catchment area that includes support services to all children and families that support safety, permanency, and well-being of children in its legal conservatorship. DFPS views a service delivery model that fully engages communities in serving children, youth, and families provided through a performance-based Single Source Continuum Contract (SSCC) as the approach that can most effectively meet this need in a manner that achieves better outcomes for children in its conservatorship. The SSCC provider will ensure the full continuum of substitute care (foster and kinship care), purchased services, and child welfare case management services for children and youth in DFPS legal conservatorship from the designated geographic catchment area, those placed in the catchment area through the Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children (ICPC), and through interregional agreements. All children will be referred to the SSCC by DFPS. The SSCC will also ensure the delivery of purchased services and case management services, with necessary service coordination, to the families and/or any other individual that is significant to the achievement of safety, permanency, and well-being of children in conservatorship. Case Management: In accordance with Texas Family Code §264.151, the provision of case management services to a child for whom the department has been appointed Temporary Managing Conservator or Permanent Managing Conservator or to the child's family, a young adult in extended foster care, a relative or kinship caregiver, or a child who has been placed in the catchment area through Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children, and includes, but is not limited to: 1. Caseworker visits with the child, family and caregivers; 2. Convening and conducting permanency planning meetings; 3. Development and revision of child and family plans of service, including a permanency plan and goals for a child or young adult in care; 4. Coordination and monitoring of services required by the child & the child's family; 5. Assumption of court-related duties regarding the child; and 6. Any other function or service that the department determines necessary to allow a Single Source Continuum Contractor to assume responsibility for case management.