NIGP 95295: Youth Care Services

NIGP 95295 Youth Care Services is an Item code covering in-home wraparound services, residential care, diversion programming, mentoring, and case management delivered to youth and young adults facing behavioral health needs, justice system involvement, homelessness, or other risk factors. State and local governments procure this work through a mix of RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs issued by county departments, municipal youth agencies, school districts, state behavioral health and children and family services departments, and regional or specialized authorities. Recent solicitations show demand across both evidence-based clinical models (wraparound services, multisystemic therapy, residential intensive mental health care) and community-based diversion and development programming (SMART Recovery facilitation, youth mentoring, truancy intervention, crisis response). Issuing bodies include Chatham County, Georgia; the cities of New Haven, Santa Monica, and Atlanta; Rockland County and San Bernardino County; the Washington State Department of Commerce and Department of Children, Youth & Families; school districts in Fulton County, Tacoma, and Northside Independent School District in Texas; and regional offices in Pennsylvania, Maine, Florida, California, Oregon, and New Mexico. The District of Columbia has posted multiple solicitations under this code, and Los Angeles County Department of Youth Development appears as a repeat buyer issuing work order solicitations and RFIs for youth diversion and development services.

Geographic activity concentrates in the West (Washington, California, Oregon), Mid-Atlantic (Pennsylvania, District of Columbia, Virginia), and Southeast (Georgia, Florida). Representative recent opportunities include Chatham County's RFP for a Children in Need of Services (CHINS) Grant Program—an evidence-based in-home wraparound service with proposals due November 17, 2026—and San Bernardino County Department of Behavioral Health's RFQ for a Children's Residential Intensive Services Program (ChRIS) offering structured residential mental health services to Medi-Cal youth, with a contract value of $95.4 million over four years and six months and proposals due October 8, 2026. The Los Angeles County Department of Youth Development is soliciting community-based diversion and development services through a Work Order Solicitation with proposals due September 11, 2026, while the Washington State Department of Children, Youth & Families is procuring Credible Messengers transition and re-entry services for youth exiting Juvenile Rehabilitation facilities (proposals due July 28, 2026) and Adolescent Transitional Living Program services in Region 6 (responses due August 20, 2026). The City of New Haven's Youth and Recreation Department awarded up to $5,000 grants to nonprofits for youth sports and pro-social activities under ARPA funding with a response deadline of October 27, 2026, while the City of Santa Monica's four-year Human Services Grants Program (proposals due December 14, 2026) and multiple DC SOUL Coaching solicitations (proposals due September 24, 2026) indicate ongoing municipal interest in youth support services across diverse program models.