SOURCES SOUGHT
69 -- EXEMPLARY PARENTING AND FAMILY STRATEGIES FOR THE PREVENTION OF CHILD AND SPOUSE ABUSE
- Notice Date
- 3/18/2003
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- Contracting Office
- Defense Contracting Command-Washington(DCC-W), ATTN: Policy and Compliance, 5200 Army Pentagon, Room 1D245, Washington, DC 20310-5200
- ZIP Code
- 20310-5200
- Solicitation Number
- DASW-03-0000
- Archive Date
- 5/27/2003
- Point of Contact
- MAURICE BROWN, 703-602-3731
- E-Mail Address
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Email your questions to Defense Contracting Command-Washington(DCC-W)
(brownmc@hqda.army.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- NA This is a Sources Sought Statement of Work. This is not a solicitation or a request for proposals. The Government is not obligated to award any contract or pay for any cost by the contractor. The Government is requesting cost estimates for the SOW below . Email estimated cost for project to Maurice C. Brown at brownmc@hqda.army.mil Overview: Years of program development and research have provided effective strategies for strengthening America?s families to prevent child and spouse abuse. A document or series of documents shall help program planners, policy makers and service providers determi ne the most effective family focused and parenting prevention and intervention strategies for the families that they serve. This guide shall review what is currently known in the research literature about the impact of family characteristics on risk for c hild and spouse abuse as well as the most promising family change interventions. FAP educators and providers using the guide will be better able to choose or modify existing programs or create new interventions for high-risk families in their communities. Deliverables: 1. The guide will contain four major sections: Part l: Family Influence on Child and Spouse Abuse This section shall help FAP personnel understand the factors that influence child and spouse abuse and why certain family strengthening approaches reduce the likelihood of abuse. Additionally, research literature on the types of family characteristics tha t impact child and spouse abuse statistics, reporting, rates and family protective and resilience facts are reported in this section. Part II: Review of Family Strengthening Programs This section reviews program strategies shown to be effective in preventing problems that lead to child and/or spouse abuse. Various approaches including family and parenting approaches, youth violence, dating violence, couples communication are described . Issues of cost-effectiveness of prevention programs are also addressed. Effective and promising prevention and intervention strategies are shown in a matrix of program types by age of child and severity of family or child problems. Family-focused inte rventions appear to be more effective than either child-focused or parent-focused approaches and will be the focus for the matrix. For spouse abuse strategies, the matrix shall be shown by program type, age of youth to adult, and type and severity of aggr ession, violence. Part III: Principles of Effective Family-Based Programs This section provides a ?cook book? that suggests that there is no single best family-based program. Rather, effective programs tend to have several principles that guide their implementation activities. FAP educators and MTF treatment providers can revi ew these principles outlined in a step-by-step implementation guide and incorporate them in selecting and planning family-based programs. Critical issues such as recruitment, attrition, and staff training and program evaluation are addressed. Prevention and intervention models addressed in Part IV may be outlined and included in the ?cook book.? Part IV: FAP Prevention, Intervention model endorsement This section describes a national search to find the highest quality family-based prevention programs and outlines the strategy designed to disseminate this information. The programs selected are identified and additional instruction is provided on how to utilize the information provided. The final section presents a brief description, point of contact, cost, and additional information as required for parenting/family programs in categories from Exemplary I, Exemplary II, Model and Promising. 2. Contractor shall prepare presentation materials that guide discussion and development of a common understanding of Standardization of primary and secondary prevention programs. The contractor shall provide an example of prevention and intervention prog ram matrix for child and spouse abuse for the following demographics as part of presentation materials: a. Installation with a young troop population, 300+ live births a month, with little civilian community resources. b. Installation with a senior troop population, teenage children with middle and senior high school off post, and on post with civilian community resources. c. Overseas locations with young troop population 300+ live births a month, in an isolated location. d. Overseas location with senior troop population, teenage children with DoDDS middle and senior high. 3. The contractor shall develop a project plan that outlines key project deliverables and associated due dates. 4. The contractor shall provide a monthly report of actions completed during the previous month, actions pending for the next month and status of labor hours to support the above tasks. 5. Draft documents shall be provided by the contractor for review by the FAPM for final approval. All recommendations for changes to documents shall be adhered to by the contractor. 6. Initial and subsequent shipping of documents shall be the responsibility of the contractor. The contractor shall provide a monthly report of shipments to the field. 7. All documents and materials are the sole property of the United States Army. 8. The period of performance is six months. 9. Deliverables: 97 copies with binders and one re-writable master CD Roms
- Place of Performance
- Address: Defense Contracting Command-Washington(DCC-W) 5200 Army Pentagon, Room 1D245 Washington DC
- Zip Code: 20310-5200
- Country: US
- Zip Code: 20310-5200
- Record
- SN00282087-W 20030320/030319062028 (fbodaily.com)
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