Publication Date December 29, 2023

Response Deadline: February 16, 2024, by 12:00 P.M.

There will be a non-mandatory virtual conference on February 2, 2024, at 10:00 A.M. The link for the conference is: https://www.zoomgov.com/j/1604684613

The Department of Children and Families (DCF) Children’s System of Care (CSOC) announces its intent to award contracts for Summer Camp and Alternative Recreational Sessions. Respondents who become qualified through this RFQ process to offer their summer camps to youth with Developmental Disability (DD) eligibility will be included on the Qualified Provider (QP) list located at www.performcarenj.org. Only those on the QP list are eligible to receive the DCF CSOC per diem contribution toward the costs of the summer camp tuition of eligible families of youth with DD eligibility.

A qualified summer camp must be physically located within the State of New Jersey and provide one (1) or more of these three (3) separate types of camp:

1. Traditional Day Camp - recreational activities offered in daily episodes

2. Alternative Recreational Sessions - recreational activities offered on an hourly basis

3. Overnight Camp - recreational activities offered in daily episodes, must include overnight hours

Responses may be for one (1) or all three (3) camp types. If the respondent seeks to contract for more than one (1) type, the response must include for each camp type a separate Program Description Form. This form is described in this RFQ in Section III – Documents Requested to be Submitted with This Response and may be accessed by clicking on the links provided there.

Providers of CSOC Summer Camp and Alternative Recreational Session programs previously qualified by DCF CSOC in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2023 are not required to respond to the RFQ. If they would like to add a new camp type to the contracted services they currently provide (i.e., Traditional, Overnight or Alternative Recreational Sessions) they should contact their DCF Contract Administrator to complete and submit for each camp type sought to be added a separate Program Component Form and Agency Data Information Form.

One-to-One Services

Qualified providers of traditional Summer Day Camp or Alternative Recreational Session programs requiring one-to-one support services for youth seeking to register to attend their summer programs must arrange to meet with the family/caregiver and jointly complete and sign the application for one-to-one support services and jointly complete the Child Adaptive Behavior Summary (CABS). The CABS will be used for all youth under age twenty-one (21) who will be attending a CSOC qualified summer day camp or Alternative Recreational Sessions and are requesting one-to-one support services. These meetings are required to take place prior to the youth being given an authorization for services.

Camp providers applying to offer traditional Summer Day Camp or Alternative Recreational Sessions are strongly encouraged to also apply to offer one-to one support services to prospective campers by responding to the simultaneously published RFQ for one-to-one supports. [https://www.nj.gov/dcf/providers/notices/requests/2023-RFQ-CSOC.One.to.One.Support.Services.pdf] One-to-one support services are not available for overnight camp participants.