DEPARTMENT OF
HUMAN SERVICES
PUBLIC NOTICE OF REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
The Department of Human Services (DHS),
Benefit, Employment and Support Services Division (BESSD) requests information
and recommendations from the general public, private sector, and community
based organizations, as well as religious organizations, in keeping with Sec.
104, Public Law 104-193.
The Temporary Assistance for Needy
Families (TANF) Programs four purposes are: 1) To provide assistance to needy
families; 2) To end dependence of needy parents by promoting job preparation,
work and marriage; 3) To prevent and reduce out of wedlock pregnancies; and 4)
To encourage the formation and maintenance of two-parent families.
In
support of TANF purpose 4, the Department seeks to develop 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.
To assist the Department in planning for
such services, information and recommendations are to be submitted in writing
no later than April 25, 2008
to:
Department of
Human Services
Benefit,
Employment and Support Services Division
Employment and
Child Care Program Office
820
Mililani Street, Suite 606
Honolulu,
HI 96813
E-Mail:
karista@dhs.hawaii.gov
The Department may engage in further
informal discussions to gather additional information and recommendations.
The Department reserves the right to
incorporate in a solicitation, if issued, for such a contract, any information
and recommendations presented and/or submitted in response to this request for
information. Neither the Department nor
any respondent to the request for information bears any obligation under this
request for information.
Lillian B.
Koller, Esq.
Director
