Tuolumne County Resource Family Home (TCRFH) Quality Parenting and Caregiving Respite Services

Child Welfare Services clients are often struggling with substance abuse, mental illness, and interpersonal violence within the co-occurring contexts of poverty, socioeconomic status, and cultural differences. The complex interaction of psychological states and presenting problems require the program have team members who are knowledgeable and committed to this population, and who understand their obstacles of logistical issues, child-related concerns, court mandates, and the negative consequences of Child Welfare Services involvement. When parents and caregivers cannot care for their children, the Resource Family (formerly known as foster family) must be able to provide the loving, committed, skilled care that the child needs while working effectively with the system to achieve the best permanency option for that child. When successful, the Resource Families work with agency staff and the child's parents/caregivers as a team to support the child. Tuolumne County Child Welfare Services is seeking a contractor who supports the family, not just the youth, in hopes of reunifying the child with his/her family. The County of Tuolumne, through its Department of Social Services (DSS) seeks to establish a list of qualified persons ("Qualified Provider List") interested in providing Quality Parenting and Caregiving Respite Services (formerly known as ECS Management Respite Services) at the Tuolumne County Resource Family Home (formerly known as the Emergency Children's Shelter). A qualified individual's placement on the Qualified Provider List does not in any way guarantee being chosen for Respite services when the need arises. The County cannot accept proposals from any individual who is currently employed with the County of Tuolumne (California Government Code §29708). The responsibility of this position is to provide Quality Parenting and Caregiving Respite Services at the County owned Tuolumne County Resource Family Home when the contracted Quality Parenting and Caregiving individual requires respite as mandated in the Agreement. Contracted Quality Parenting and Caregiving Services providers are provided respite at a rate of four (4) days per month, and four (4) one-week vacations per Agreement per year, for a total of seventy-six (76) days. However, in the event of unforeseen circumstances the need for respite could exceed these allotments.