Specifications include, but are not limited to: This contract is for Intensive Family Based Services for approximately 10 families monthly in the Hartford district. Intensive Family Based Services (IFBS) are family-focused, community-based crisis intervention services with a clinical focus designed to safely maintain children who are at high risk of removal in their homes, and to prevent the unnecessary separation of families. These services are also intended to support families who have reunited after a child’s out-of-home placement. The Department for Children and Families (DCF), Family Services has been granting with community agencies to provide Intensive Family Based Services since 1985. Services are provided based on a thorough assessment of the needs of the family, their capacity to change, and current level of risk assessment of their children. While the specific intensity of service delivery is determined based on this assessment, the program is intended to provide short-term, intensive, clinically focused services primarily in the family’s home or in another environment familiar to the family. The focus is to address immediate challenges and risks rather than long-term support/case management and is offered to families as an alternative to their children’s out-of-home placement, or to support the family when a child is reunified after an out-of-home placement. Program will have access to supervision of direct service staff by a Clinician with experience in the field of substance misuse.