Common use of CORE ELEMENTS Clause in Contracts

CORE ELEMENTS. FUSE programs are centered on ascertaining the needs of families and providing intensive case management and clinical services to help address their barriers to obtaining permanent housing. DFSS seeks applicants with the ability to deliver the following services/activities: • Assess and provide supportive services to the entire family. • Develop transition plans for families that lead to more stable housing, including working with the family and interim housing providers to establish successful new interim housing placements, helping to maintain a current placement, or moving to other permanent housing options. • Provide supportive services that address housing stability and crisis intervention services that prevent ongoing homelessness and trauma reduction. • Provide training, technical, and clinical assistance to interim housing providers focused on supporting housing stability of vulnerable families within the shelter setting. • Develop ongoing collaboration and coordination with shelters and other service providers to ensure a single, well-integrated experience of support for families. • Integrate with the Coordinated Entry System as directed by DFSS. • Must have relevant staff, systems, and processes needed to collect key participant and performance data. Must evaluate and manage performance including the use of HMIS as appropriate. These services can be provided by the applicant or through linkages to services provided by other organizations. Throughout all components of the FUSE program and FUSE lead agency role, the applicant will be expected to implement service delivery models that incorporate tenets of housing first, harm reduction, trauma informed care, and strengths-based practices, which have shown to be successful in housing vulnerable populations. To ensure families with significant needs receive intensive case management, DFSS recommends a “case manager to family” ratio of 1:15 or lower for this program. In addition to requirements outlined above, we welcome innovative ideas that contribute to the outcomes sought for the target population. DFSS is also interested in programs that are presented with compelling evidence that the proposed program will have a meaningful and observable impact on stable housing outcomes for the target population.