Group Home Care and Residential Placement services

The Vendor is required to provide Group Home Care/ Residential Placement services for medically fragile youth (newborn up to age 21). Applicant cannot be a government agency.
- Providers to deliver 24/7 Group Home services for medically fragile youth from birth through age twenty-one (21).
- The program will serve children with complex medical, physical, and intellectual disabilities requiring continuous clinical, respiratory, and medical oversight.
- Providers must operate a licensed homelike facility with a capacity of 8–16 youth and deliver individualized habilitative programming that supports each child’s physical, cognitive, psychological, educational, and social development.
- Services must be delivered through an interdisciplinary team and include family engagement, individualized service planning, and educational supports.
- responsible for ensuring that these youth receive safe, stable, and developmentally appropriate care in settings capable of meeting their complex needs.
- Their medical needs often stem from birth complications, genetic disorders, severe neglect or abuse, or maternal substance exposure.
- Current service capacity is limited, and many youth experience delays in placement or receive care in settings that cannot fully meet their medical, therapeutic, or educational needs. Without appropriate residential options, these children face increased risks of medical instability, developmental regression, prolonged hospitalization, and reduced opportunities for family reunification.
- Goals:
• Improve Medical Stability through 24/7 skilled nursing, respiratory care, and proactive clinical management.
• Support measurable progress in physical, cognitive, communication, and adaptive functioning through structured habilitative therapies.
• Provide consistent onsite or community based education that supports IEP goals and academic engagement.
• Strengthen Family Engagement and Permanency.
• Enhance Quality of Life in a Home like Environment.
- The conditions/disabilities may include but not be limited to:
• Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia
• Birth Defects & Genetic Disorders
• Paralyzing or Neuromuscular Diseases
• Brain-Spinal Cord Diseases/Injury
• Anoxic Brain Injury/Near Drowning
• Trauma
• Seizure Disorder
• Cardiac Anomalies
• Cerebral Palsy
• Cystic Fibrosis
• Ventilator dependent
• Pulmonary impaired
• Medically fragile
• Technologically dependent
- Applicant is expected to provide structured, individualized habilitative programming/service planning for target youth in a home like setting. Services provided should enhance youth/child's ability to reach their highest potential physically, psychologically, educationally, cognitively and socially. Applicant is expected to engage the family and/or caretaker in habilitative efforts and to encourage families/caretakers to visit frequently and to participate in training to facilitate reunification when appropriate.
- This Plan will be followed by all staff interacting with the youth/child. The service provider is required to review the Plan for appropriate updates/modifications as deemed appropriate.
- Child/youth are expected to receive 10-12 hours of direct clinical care per child/youth per day.