Bid Detail

21-035 - IFB: Consulting Services to Develop and Deliver Training Series for Providers Serving Homeless Youth

PROJECT SUMMARY

PURPOSE

The Springfield-Hampden County Continuum of Care (CoC), through its Unified Funding Agency, the City of Springfield, seeks a Consultant or Consulting Team to create and provide a year-long training series and training materials for homeless service providers who are starting new projects that will serve youth and young adults (YYAs) experiencing homelessness. The goal of the training is to set a common understanding among staff of providers funded under the federal Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP) of topics that are core to providing quality services and following best practices for serving homeless youth. YYA refers to unaccompanied or parenting young people under age 25.

FUNDS AVAILABLE

The cost of this consulting project is not to exceed $40,000.

TIMELINE

The project will begin in October 2020 and must be complete by December 31, 2021.

BACKGROUND

The CoC is a network of municipalities, organizations, community residents, and businesses that coordinate initiatives with the primary goal of ending homelessness in our community. The CoC’s members work to address homelessness through a coordinated, community-based process of identifying needs and building a system of housing and services to address those needs. The geographic area of the CoC includes all cities and towns within Hampden County, Massachusetts.

The CoC has been engaged in a multi-year effort to increase its capacity to prevent and end YYA homelessness. The CoC receives ongoing funding from the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS) to assist the homeless YYA population, and EOHHS funding supported the CoC to undertake a needs assessment for this population in Spring 2019. In August 2019, the CoC was selected by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) as a YHDP community. The YHDP requires communities to use a community planning process, which includes authentic youth collaboration, to create a coordinated community plan (CCP) to prevent and end YYA homelessness. Once the CCP is approved by HUD, the community is able to access funds to implement programs identified in the CCP. The CoC’s CCP has been approved, and providers have been selected to operate new programs. The new programs include a coordinated entry and navigation project, 11 units in a joint transitional housing-rapid rehousing project, 30 units of rapid rehousing, and 8 units of permanent supportive housing.

The CoC’s work is supported by a Youth Action Board (YAB), a group of YYAs with lived experience of homelessness, who collaborate with the CoC in creating and implementing the CCP.

The YHDP opportunity and the CoC’s CCP identify core values and competencies required in the new programs. In order to support incorporation of the core values and competencies, the CoC will provide a full year of intensive training to staff of the YHDP grantees.

PROJECT REQUIREMENTS

The Consultant will create and implement a year-long training series and develop accompanying training materials. Sessions should incorporate the following topics:
• Understanding and Working with YYA Experiencing Homelessness
• Adultism
• Positive Youth Development
• Trauma-Informed Care
• Behavioral Health, including harm reduction
• Domestic Violence and Human Trafficking
• Addressing the needs of LGBTQ YYA and ensuring equity for this population
• Addressing Racial/Ethnic Equity in Our Efforts to End YYA Homelessness
• Housing YYA experiencing homelessness, including Housing First
The training series will include, at a minimum, the following:
• Live online trainings (via Zoom or a similar platform), with recordings made available to anyone who must miss a session
• Incorporation of YAB in planning and/or providing training
• 48 hours of on-line, interactive training sessions
• 12 hours of facilitated peer support spread throughout the year
• Solicitation of and responsiveness to participant feedback throughout the series
• Production of training materials (including video and written materials) that the CoC can use after the initial training series is complete

INQUIRIES:

To maintain a fair and impartial competitive process, the Procurement Office will answer only written questions. Please avoid private communication with any City staff regarding this IFB from the release date through the date of selection. Proposers who initiate private communication or attempt to violate the process outlined herein may be disqualified.

In order to provide prompt answers to questions, the Springfield Procurement Office requests that all proposers submit written questions. Questions must be received in writing only at the City of Springfield, Office of Procurement not later than September 22, 2020. Questions may be faxed or emailed. The Office of Procurement fax number is (413) 787-6295 or email lstabilo@springfieldCityhall.com.

The Procurement Office will compile written answers which will be emailed back to all Proposers who requested a copy of the IFB, no later than September 24, 2020.

The City of Springfield supports the goal of twenty percent minority and women participation in all contracts. No questions will be answered unless received by the Chief Procurement Officer at least 7 days prior to the expiration of the time set for submitting bids or proposals. The Chief Procurement Officer reserves the right to waive any informality in and to reject any or all bids if it is in the public interest to do so.

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