SOLICITATION NOTICE
U -- 24 HOUR CLASS FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
- Notice Date
- 4/27/2010
- Notice Type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- NAICS
- 611430
— Professional and Management Development Training
- Contracting Office
- Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency, D. C. Pre-Trial Services Agency, Finance and Administration, 633 Indiana Avenue, NW, Suite 1120, Washington, District of Columbia, 20004
- ZIP Code
- 20004
- Solicitation Number
- RFP-20101845-RD
- Point of Contact
- Rachel Dobbs, , Rachel Dobbs,
- E-Mail Address
-
rachel.dobbs@psa.gov, rachel.dobbs@psa.gov
(rachel.dobbs@psa.gov, rachel.dobbs@psa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- I. Introduction The Pretrial Services Agency Training and Career Development Center (PSA) is the primary developer of this statement of work. This training is being offered as a part of PSA's Substance Abuse Treatment Training Program (SATTP). SATTP includes 12 substance abuse related trainings aimed at assisting Agency employees in acquiring the skills needed to work with substance dependant defendants. SATTP is also used to help employees earn substance abuse credit hours needed for certification exam and re-certification of currently certified or licensed substance abuse professionals who are PSA employees as well. This particular training should teach employees on human development and how it is impacted by addiction and recovery. The class will include up to 25 PSA employees, although the Agency reserves the right to include employees from other government agencies. II. Scope This training is to take place at the District of Columbia Pretrial Services Agency training facility in June, July and/or August of 2010. The training must be 24-hours in length. The final dates and exact hours of the training will be determined upon award of the contract. The class must be taught to prepare the participants to take a nationally recognized substance abuse certification exam. III. Training Objectives Goal 1 - The goal is to provide participants with information about the stages of physical, emotional, and cognitive development in human beings. This class should focus on how the use of alcohol and other drugs impact all stages of human development, particularly objectives two through five. By the end of this session, participants should be able to: Objective 1 - Identify the difference between the psychoanalytic, learning, humanistic, and cognitive theories of development. Objective 2 - Identify the life-span developmental process Objective 3 - Recognize the various periods of human development to include prenatal, infancy, childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. Objective 4 - Explain the physical, emotional, cognitive and social functions of each developmental stage. Objective 5 - List how the role of family, heredity, and environment influence human development Objective 6 - Identify the impact of alcohol and other drugs on human development IV. Technical Requirements • Instruction shall include opportunities for experiential as well as theoretical learning, exposing the employees to skills that can be immediately practiced and developed over time, for use with substance abuse dependant defendants. • Because adult learning theory suggests that individuals have different learning styles, various instructional strategies shall be employed to teach content. Group work, practice exercises and other interactive instruction shall be utilized whenever possible in order to allow for deep learning. • Vendor should use a various visual aides to present the training, preferably PowerPoint • Vendor shall use PSA Training and Career Development Center Level 1 evaluation tools in place of their own. • All training must be in compliance with Section 624 of the Treasury, Postal Service and General Government Appropriations Act of 1997 which "Prohibits...employee training...containing [the following] elements: (1) inducing high emotional or psychological stress; (2) associated with religious, quasi-religious, or "new age" belief systems; (3) offensive to, or designed to change, participants' personal values or lifestyle; or (4) related to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) other than that necessary for specified purposes." • Training vendor must present verification that one of the following local or national certifications boards has approved the training to be provided:  District of Columbia Certification Board for Professional Alcohol and Drug Counselors  National Associations for Addiction Professionals  International Certification & Reciprocity Consortium • The Contractor shall submit a proposal for review and approval that includes the following: • Total cost, including any travel, if applicable; • Training title; • An overview and detailed description of the class; • Any materials/handouts to be used in the training (if all material is not available at the time the proposal is submitted, at least five sample pages must be provided for evaluative purposes); • An outline of experiential learning opportunities to be employed and a description of how the learning opportunities connect to the goal(s) and objective(s); • Three references that demonstrate experience delivering related trainings, preferably one from the Federal government. • An indication of vendor's availability to train class in the months of June, July and/or August of 2010. • An indication that the training being provided to Pretrial Services Agency has been approved by the aforementioned boards and if so, which one (s). • The place of performance must be at a DC Pretrial Services provided facility. Failure to provide all of requested items may result in an unfavorable rating of proposal. V. Deliverables The contractor shall deliver: 1. Any and all workbooks/handouts on or before the training, professionally printed, grammatically correct and with no typos. 2. All contracted classes, to be delivered at a facility in the District of Columbia, to be provided by the Government. The training must take place in June, July and/or August of 2010. 3. Training that complies with contractual obligations. 4. The vendor will be responsible for providing any and all handouts, participant manuals, etc. for 25 participants.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: WASHINGTON, District of Columbia, 20004, United States
- Zip Code: 20004
- Zip Code: 20004
- Record
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