COUNTY OF ALAMEDA - Behavioral Health Care Services

Alameda County Behavioral Healthcare Services Request for Quotations TIC-1
vi. Bidder shall have the capacity and availability to train leadership teams from
California Counties on products/tools/strategies developed through this project 1 .
vii. Bidder shall possess all permits, licenses and professional credentials necessary to
supply product and perform services as specified under this RFQ.
2. Specific Requirements
Specific Requirements for this technical assistance / capacity building project include the
following two components
Component One: Develop capacity-building tools and strategies that:
- Offer clients, family members and providers the skills and knowledge needed to
address trauma and its impact on behavioral health challenges.
- Are easy-to-use within diverse cultural populations that provide and receive
behavioral health care services in Alameda County.
- Include stakeholder meetings that are designed as safe/healing places to learn and
share practical knowledge and skills that providers, consumers and family members
use in giving and receiving support for trauma.
- Are replicable to other counties.
- Are sustainable past the initial one-year funding period.
- During completion of each task, effectively communicate the commitment of BHCS
to developing approaches to Trauma Informed care.
Component Two: Complete the project in two phases.
Phase I: Development of Tools and Strategies: Achieve three outcomes:
Raise awareness of the role of trauma in mental health;
Develop tools and strategy; and
Lay groundwork for sustainability of final product.
Phase II: Training, Implementation, Sustainability: Achieve two outcomes:
Implement products of this project; and
Prepare a leadership core who can sustain training and use of products/strategies
developed by this project.
1 All products/tools/strategies developed under this project will become the property of Alameda County Behavioral Health Care Services.
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