DCJ seeks providers for Families Together, a framework for delivering Family Preservation services to families with children who are at risk of significant harm.

Project goals

Family Preservation is a critical service child protection system, supporting families with children who are suspected or determined to be at risk of significant harm. These families are likely to have a combination of mental health, drug and alcohol misuse, and domestic and family violence in the home. 90% of referrals to Family Preservation will come from DCJ child protection.

The primary objective of Family Preservation is to keep children safe at home with their families, and prevent removal, placement in out of home care, and future contact with the child protection system. Family Preservation also aims to support children and families to achieve wider social benefits, including better educational attainment and improved health and wellbeing indicators.

Scope

Families Together is one framework to deliver Family Preservation services to eligible families and may be delivered by Aboriginal Community-Controlled Organisations or other service providers. It has an average service duration of 12 months, and delivers the following core components:

• Engagement
• Case Management
• Family and Parent Support
• Child-focused Support
• Therapeutic support

Families Together is to be delivered between 6am to 8pm Monday to Friday. Providers of Families Together will be required to deliver specified service activities, and have the discretion to deliver others in order to achieve outcomes for clients. Activities include:

• Visiting the family home
• Undertaking ecological mapping to identify family members and support network and supporting family-led decision making
• Developing a case plan with the family tailored to their needs and characteristics
• Ongoing monitoring and discussion with family members, including children, about their safety, wellbeing, and progress

Providers will also be required to report specified data to allow for continuous service improvement.

Unit cost are pre-determined by DCJ.

Additional details/instructions

**Please refer to the attached document within the Related files section for information on the Families Together briefings and tender writing support for ACCOs.**

This tender opportunity can only be accessed and responded via the Department’s end to end procurement system, Procurement Central. Any submission lodged outside of Procurement Central will not be considered by the Department.

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Requirements

Mandatory requirements

Social procurement (Aboriginal Procurement Policy) *

Community and social services

Category and estimated value is subject to social procurement.

If you are successful in winning this opportuntity you will be required to submit quarterly reporting, do you agree?

Response type

Radio button (Yes/No)

Social procurement (Shorter Payment Terms Policy) *

Community and social services

Category and estimated value is subject to social procurement.

If you are successful in winning this opportuntity you will be required to submit quarterly reporting, do you agree?

Response type

Radio button (Yes/No)

Social procurement (SME Policy) *

Community and social services

Category and estimated value is subject to social procurement.

If you are successful in winning this opportuntity you will be required to submit quarterly reporting, do you agree?

Response type

Radio button (Yes/No)

Opportunity requirements

1. Acknowledgement to Respond to Opportunity via procurement Central

I will access the tender documentation via Procurement central and submit my response through that platform.

Response type

Checkbox (Agree)

Evaluation

Weighting

The evaluation weighting is an estimate and is subject to change.

Price: 10%

Non price: 90%

Please see attached files in the link for more information