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

Respondents may not contact DCF in person or by telephone concerning this RFQ. Questions may be sent in advance of the response deadline via email to [email protected]

The Department of Children and Families (DCF) Children’s System of Care (CSOC) announces its intent to award to its qualified providers of Summer Day Camp and Alternative Recreational Session programs additional complementary contracts that will permit them to offer one-to-one support services to the children, youth, and young adults (hereinafter youth) they serve who are under the age of twenty-one (21) with developmental disabilities (DD).

Respondents who become qualified through this RFQ process to offer one-to-one support services at their Summer Day Camp and Alternative Recreational Session programs 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 contribution toward the costs of the one-to-one support services of eligible families of youth with DD eligibility.

Respondents will be qualified to provide one-to-one support services to youth attending only the qualified Summer Day Camp or Alternative Recreational Session programs operated by the respondent’s agency. Respondents will not be qualified to provide one to one support services to overnight camp participants.

Respondents applying to become qualified providers of Summer Day Camp or Alternative Recreational Session programs for the first time or applying to provide one-to-one support services for the first time to the youth they serve in their Summer Day Camp or Alternative Recreational Session programs must respond to this RFQ.

Providers previously qualified to offer one-to-one support services for their Summer Day Camp or Alternative Recreational Session programs do not need to respond to this RFQ. Qualified providers remain on the QP unless they advise their Contract Administrators of their wish to be removed.

Respondents who can demonstrate the capacity to provide services to non-verbal and/or bi-lingual individuals are encouraged.

Families who apply for one-to-one support services may be eligible to receive these services if CSOC determines their youth either have challenging behaviors that may threaten the health or safety of themselves or others without the supervision and involvement of a one-to-one support services staff, or an absence of developmentally appropriate adaptive, social, or functional skills and need direct physical assistance from a one-to-one support services staff in order to successfully participate in recreational and social summer camp activities.

Youth who require skilled nursing care to provide for their special medical needs would not be a candidate for a one-to-one support service for camp; one-to-one support services staff are not expected to be qualified to provide skilled nursing care.