Specifications include, but are not limited to: The Agency of Human Services (AHS) is interested in hiring a consultant to analyze our residential system of care and answer the following question: What planning steps can Vermont take beginning in FY21, in an incremental manner, over the next five years to: • increase community-based supports and services (wraparound supports for children in their biological or foster home, mobile response, therapeutic foster homes) • increase the ability of families to care for their children while they receive the necessary therapeutic treatment; and • provide necessary treatment within family like settings, thus decreasing the need to receive that treatment within a residential setting; • ensure youth only reside within residential settings when treatment provided is necessary and prescribed and only for the duration of that need.