The Department’s Office of Probation and Community Intervention seeks information about the availability of Vendors to provide Transitional Housing Assistance Services to Department youth, eighteen (18) years of age through twenty-one (21) years of age, who have no place to reside and are in the process of transitioning to independent living. Basic services must include housing with bathing, laundry, food (three (3) meals a day), electricity, access to a local phone and other ancillary support services, as specified further in this RFI. Services shall typically not exceed six (6) months (one hundred eighty (180) days) without additional authorization. The goal of the Department is to provide youth a secure place to reside in the least restrictive setting possible and other support services, while assisting the youth in maintaining an independent, drug free, crime-free lifestyle and making successful integration into adulthood and self-sufficiency in the community. Providers who contract with the Department to provide these services may be compensated at a fixed rate per day, per filled bed. Youth must be referred by the Department for Department funded beds.

The demographics of the population in need of this service include males and females, non-sex offenders, registered juvenile sex offenders, youth with a history of sexual offenses, or youth with prior felony convictions, many of whom have been released or will be released from a residential commitment program and are returning to their home communities. In addition, youth who are victims of human trafficking are also in need of a safe place to reside. The Department is not seeking a Vendor to accept ALL of the identified populations. In response to this RFI, Vendors will have an opportunity to identify the type of youth acceptable for their proposed housing services.

Interested Parties who are encouraged to respond to this RFI include For Profit, Not-for-Profit and Faith Based Agencies. These services shall ensure that for those youth referred to and participating in the program, their faith orientation or lack thereof, will not be considered in determining admission to the program and that the program shall not attempt to convert any such program participant toward a particular faith or religious practice. State funds shall only be expended to further the secular goals of transitioning youth to independent living along with successful reintegration into the community, and the reduction of recidivism.

In addition, Vendors willing to house registered sex offenders shall be familiar with the requirements of housing registered sex offenders as outlined further in this RFI.

 

 
Please direct all questions to:
Christopher Morris
Phone: (850) 717-2616
FAX: (850) 414-1625
 
2737 Centerview Drive
Tallahassee FL, 32399
 
Email: christopher.morris@djj.state.fl.us
 
Any person with a disability requiring special accommodations at the pre-solicitation conference and/or bid/proposal opening shall contact purchasing at the phone number above at least five (5) working days prior to the event. If you are hearing or speech impaired, please contact this office by using the Florida Relay Services which can be reached at 1 (800) 955-8771 (TDD).
 
The Department reserves the right to reject any and all bids or accept minor irregularities in the best interest of the State of Florida.
 
Certified Business Enterprises are encouraged to participate in the solicitation process.
 

Downloadable Files for Advertisement

Version	Description	Type	Required
Original	RFI 10512 - Solicitation Document (Open/Save/View)	Complete Document
002	RFI 10512 - Transitional Housing Assistance Services for Youth - Addendum 1 (Open/Save/View)	Complete Document