The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has a continuing requirement to provide Behavioral Health Case Management and Behavioral Health Services for Separated Families.

The purpose of this requirement, the “Behavioral Health Case Management and Behavioral Health Services for Separated Families”, is to conduct outreach to locate and assist with registration, and provide effective, trauma-informed, culturally relevant, evidence-based, coordinated parenting support, psychoeducation, and behavioral health services (behavioral health case management and behavioral health treatment) to members of the Ms. L. Settlement Class and pay copayments incurred by class members at Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) during a 12-month eligibility period. The potential contract shall continue all current services for the parents, legal guardians and their children who were separated under the Zero Tolerance Policy (ZTP), as are designated by the government, expand outreach services to international regions and include the coverage of medical co-pays for medical services obtained through FQHCs.

The behavioral health services to be provided under the Settlement Agreement include a continuation of the same child-centered pre-reunification counseling, clinical treatment services, behavioral health case management, psychoeducation, and parenting support that were being provided under a previous contract. The Settlement Agreement also provides for the Government to cover copays for medical costs incurred by the Settlement Class members when receiving medical services at Federally Qualified Health Centers during a 12-month eligibility period. In order for the Settlement Class members to be eligible for services, they must first register in together.gov and be confirmed by the Government as Ms. L. Settlement Class members.

The goal of this contract is to locate and establish contact with families (parents, legal guardians, and children) separated at the United States-Mexico border under the ZTP and related policies between January 20th, 2017 and January 20th, 2021 and to inform them of all available services through the settlement and facilitate their access to the following services: 1) reunification services including the registration process at Together.gov and Juntos.gov; 2) medical services through FQHCs; 3) and behavioral health services if desired. To that end, the Contractor shall convene a coalition of child and family-serving organizations as well as organizations providing services to migrant families and youth. The Contractor shall convene and coordinate the activities of coalition-member organizations to ensure unity of effort, and capacity to deliver all the described services to reunified families in all relevant geographic areas of the United States.

The objectives of the contract are:

• To successfully organize, coordinate, and implement a system for establishing contact with families separated at the United States-Mexico border under the ZTP and related policies as identified by the United States Government (USG) between January 20th, 2017, and January 20th, 2021, in all relevant geographic areas both within and outside of the continental United States.
• To subsequently inform the families of the registration process and all available services, including the possibility of requesting humanitarian parole, housing assistance, limited legal support services, access to medical services through FQHCs with funded co-pay support and behavioral health services which include child-focused pre-reunification counseling, psychoeducation, and behavioral health case management and treatment and solicit their interest in those services.
• To facilitate access for those families to such available medical service through FQHCs and available coverage of co-pays during the 12-month eligibility period.
• To successfully organize and coordinate a system for child-centered pre-reunification counseling.
• To successfully organize and coordinate trauma-informed, culturally competent behavioral health case management service delivery for these families in all relevant geographic areas of the United States;
• To successfully organize and coordinate trauma-informed, culturally competent psychoeducation and parenting support services for these families in all relevant geographic areas of the United States.; and
• To successfully organize and coordinate trauma-informed, culturally competent, and evidence-based (and evidence-informed) behavioral health service (includes mental health and substance use treatment) provision for these families in all relevant geographic areas of the United States.
• To support the successful reunification of class members by offering behavioral health services to select family members of eligible class members whose behavioral health treatment is deemed integral to successful reunification of those class members.