SOLICITATION NOTICE
U -- Survivor Services and Supports in Response to Community Violence - Solicitation 13-233-SOL-00528_Survivor Services and Supports in Community Violence
- Notice Date
- 8/27/2013
- Notice Type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- NAICS
- 813319
— Other Social Advocacy Organizations
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Program Support Center, Division of Acquisition Management, 12501 Ardennes Avenue, Suite 400, Rockville, Maryland, 20857, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20857
- Solicitation Number
- 13-233-SOL-00528
- Point of Contact
- Peter D. Preston, Phone: 3014435100, Darnese M. Wilkerson, Phone: 3014436557
- E-Mail Address
-
Peter.Preston@psc.hhs.gov, darnese.wilkerson@psc.hhs.gov
(Peter.Preston@psc.hhs.gov, darnese.wilkerson@psc.hhs.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Competitive 8(a)
- Description
- The purpose of this initiative is to contribute to the knowledge about the impact of trauma on survivors ‘of mass tragedies, with a special focus on children. While the proposed project is in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, the findings in the literature review, environmental scan, and reports will further inform the field of survivor trauma and increase knowledge of evidence-based and any available supports services to respond to survivors including behavioral health needs. Notice Of Intent: The Department of Health and Human Service (DHHS), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), intends to award a purchase order to support SAMHSA's efforts to contribute to the knowledge about the impact of trauma on survivors ‘of mass tragedies, with a special focus on children. While the proposed project is in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, the findings in the literature review, environmental scan, and reports will further inform the field of survivor trauma and increase knowledge of evidence-based and any available supports services to respond to survivors including behavioral health needs. Description: The contractor will review available behavioral health funding priorities and services available to survivors of mass tragedies and identify any gaps within behavioral health services that need to be addressed as a part of comprehensive evidence based behavioral health response to such a community tragedy. Research has shown trauma, experienced during childhood, can contribute to future problems associated with cognitive development and coping skills. When trauma occurs repeatedly, permanent changes in the brain can occur, compromising core mental, emotional, and social functioning - and resulting in a brain that is focused on simply surviving trauma. The Contractor will review available behavioral health services for survivors. How the behavioral health services are made available to trauma survivors and document any specific service needs and evidence-based therapeutic approaches that focus on behavioral health, healing and resilience in the context of community tragedies. A critical part this work will focus on identifying ways to help children understand tragic actions and events such as the Sandy Hook shooting, while focusing on the coping, healing, and recovery processes. It is helpful to remind children that people do heal from tragic events like this, and to encourage them to use their coping skills, and get support and help from others. It helps to have discussions with children about coping strategies. It is important to explain that these are skills that can be learned, and that they are very important in helping people manage the stresses and challenges that occur in life. General Requirements: Independently, and not as an agent of the Government, the Contractor shall exert its best efforts and furnish the necessary personnel, facilities, equipment, materials and supplies (except as otherwise specified herein) to perform work set forth below. All work under this project shall be monitored by the Government Project Officer (GPO). All reports, produced under this project shall be the property of the Federal government, which includes the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). SAMHSA or CMHS may utilize, print, or disseminate such material without further charge. No other articles or publications which rely substantially on materials produced under this project shall be published by either party without prior consultation and approval.
- Web Link
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FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/HHS/PSC/DAM/13-233-SOL-00528/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: The place(s) of performance shall be determined subsequent to a final award being made, with consideration given to the location of the Contractor and its office(s)., United States
- Record
- SN03165035-W 20130829/130828000424-9f0a1351a836000415edf0d37d5eb9b2 (fbodaily.com)
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