DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

The Department of Human Services (DHS), Benefit, Employment and Support Services Division (BESSD), Employment & Child Care Program Office, requests proposals from qualified applicants to establish services that

provide community-based, parenting education support groups for children ages birth to three. Services may include but are not limited to, the provision of ongoing peer support, the promotion of positive parenting and guidance to groups of parents of infants and toddlers through:

Community-based volunteer led support groups that provide information,

education, referral and screening.

Training volunteer group leaders to lead parent groups and help recruit other

parents to be trained as leaders.

Educating the community at-large in the form of workshops and other events

on child behavior and development, parent-child interactions and positive

parenting guidance techniques.

The Proposals may be submitted from the private (for profit and non-profit) sectors as well as religious and faith-based organizations, in keeping with Sec. 104, Public Law 104-193.

All proposals must conform to the format and instructions provided in the Request for Proposals (RFP) HMS-903-08-14-O information packets. Information packets will be available beginning Friday, May 2, 2008 from 7:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the BESSD Administration Office, 820 Mililani Street, Suite 606, Haseko Center, Honolulu, HI 96813. This RFP will also be available on the web at http://www.hawaii.gov/rfps103f. Proposal submittal deadline is Tuesday, July 1, 2008 by 4:30 p.m.

Please hold all questions relevant to this RFP for the informational session scheduled for Monday, May 19, 2008 from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. at, Haseko Center, 820 Mililani Street, Conference Rm. 1, Suite 610, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813. For more information, please call Kim Arista at 586-7090.

Lillian B. Koller

Director