Added: Jun 30, 2008 1:50 pm
The Office of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration (SAMHSA),
Office of the Administrator, (OA), through the Program Support Center, Division of Acquisitions Managements, intends to award a sole source contract using simplified acquisition procedures to Georgetown University, Center for Child and Human Development
Washington, DC 20030.
This contract supports the development of a Recovery Model for adolescents and transition-age youth with substance abuse and/co-occurring substance abuse and mental health issues. It is expected that this model will be informed by multiple sources of data: empirical data demonstrating effective programs and practices for youth with SA and/or Co-occurring SA and MH issues; provider experience with effective strategies that result in sustained recovery for youth; youth who have been involved in multiple services systems and their families; and experts in the field of positive youth development. It will also address the challenges posed to the recovery concept in mental health and the preference for the concept of resiliency.
The Contractor shall be responsible for but not limited to the following:
The key deliverables for this contract will be (1) a consultative session and (2) a concept paper on the Adolescent Recovery System of Services and Supports that serves to further refine a model of the necessary services and supports to promote and sustain adolescent recovery and resiliency.
The consultative session will serve to define and operationalize the concept of adolescent recovery. It will convene experts who interface with adolescent recovery issues from diverse perspectives. Services researchers will provide the empirical foundation for understanding what services, programs or practices contribute to or are critical elements in recovery; providers, including SAMHSA grantees, will delineate the essential care components in recovery; youth and their families will address this question from their experiences in systems and services; and researchers on positive youth development will articulate the necessary conditions for youth, with or without mental health and substance abuse issues, to flourish in their communities. As adolescents are embedded in their families, schools and communities, the concept will be further refined to capture the systemic as well as individual nature of sustained recovery. This will also be done for transition-age youth.
The concept paper will propose a model of adolescent and transition youth recovery based on the discussions and materials shared at the Consultative Session. It will include a discussion of definitions of recovery, a consensus definition provided by the Consultative Session, key principles in recovery-oriented care, barriers and facilitators to recovery, critical factors in sustained recovery, strategies to measure recovery at the individual, family and community level, essential service sectors to include in an array of recovery services, e.g., youth workforce development system of services and supports, and supports that are developmentally appropriate for adolescents and transition age youth, integration of recovery-oriented treatment models with positive youth development models, community integration, and challenges to moving toward recovery-oriented care for youth. The contractor will be expected to build on reports from previous SAMHSA-convened meetings by CMHS and CSAT on recovery and resiliency in youth, recovery-oriented systems of care and the youth focus groups from the CSAT national summit on recovery.
The Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development is uniquely positioned to perform these tasks because of its critical work in a systems of care approach for youth with mental health and co-occurring mental health and substance use issues.
The Center is a key national provider of technical assistance and policy development to States for systems of care programs for youth with mental health and co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders and has a one-of-a-kind extensive network of researchers, providers, policymakers and family and youth organizations that can participate in the requested consultative session to develop a recovery and resiliency model of care. The Center has been the key national provider of technical assistance for state adolescent substance abuse coordinators and state child and youth mental health directors to develop the system of services and supports for youth with mental health and substance abuse problems.
