Attachment 1 SOW Final.pdf

STATEMENT OF WORK (SOW)

1.0 TITLE

SAMHSA Youth Innovation Challenge.

2.0 BACKGROUND

In the Surgeon General’s Youth Mental Health Advisory, he stated “Elevate the voices of children, young people, and their families. Youth are experts on their own lives, so it is important to engage youth in community-based mental health efforts. Explore youth advisory councils and other ways to involve young people in all phases of programming, from ideation to implementation. Gather feedback to understand what is and isn’t working. Include youth and families directly in delivering services, for example by creating peer support programs.”

Representatives from youth led organizations have stated that youth don’t want to be tokenized, they want to be asked what they want. They explained that youth know more and have more answers than they are given credit for, and their voice is key to being successful in any behavioral health initiatives. In addition, there is a great deal of research supporting that there are factors that are known to be protective against youth substance use including positive attitudes toward school, parental monitoring, engagement in extracurricular activities, and social-emotional learning (Richter 2022). Mattering and connectedness are key and powerful concepts that are part of those protective factors. (Maine Resilience Building Network, 2022).

Mattering is the sense of being significant and valued by other people. People who believe they matter to others have a key protective resource that can buffer them from life stressors and challenges throughout their lives. (Flett, 2018).

Through this purchase order, SAMHSA CSAP intends to partner with a contractor to create a pathway for youth to play an active role in identifying solutions to behavioral health problems – specifically related to advancing universal substance misuse prevention. Specifically, this project will support sponsoring a youth-led behavioral health Universal (Primary) Prevention Innovation Challenge with the contractor.

2.1 OBJECTIVE

The objective of this purchase order is to support a youth-led challenge on how to use technology for universal primary prevention with the goal of providing SAMHSA with new and actionable universal prevention proposals. In supporting this challenge, SAMHSA also aims to shift perceptions and social norms related to substance misuse and support resistance to negative peer pressure using the youth perspective. This activity supports SAMHSA’s Strategic Priority of promoting resilience and emotional health of children, youth, and families.

3.0 SCOPE

The scope of this multi-phased requirement shall include the following:

• Phase 1:

o Host (or recently hosted)youth -led innovation challenge concept around universal primary prevention and collect submissions o Conduct a review of submissions to select up to three finalists. Finalists will pitch their idea live at the Youth Tech Health (YTH) conference.

• Phase 2:

o support a venue for finalists to pitch their idea to the audience who will vote on a winner. The winner is announced in the final session at the conference event.

o provide the winner receives a cash award to support their work.

o promote the winner project across their youth networks. support the recipient in writing a blog post that is widely disseminated.

o Promotional materials of the winners will include SAMHSA branding.

• Phase 3: Collaboratively review the winner’s proposal and strategize advancing the project via existing technical assistance mechanisms, grant programs, and other supports.

4.0 CONTRACT REQUIREMENTS/ AND PERSONNEL QUALIFICATIONS

• Task 1: Contractor, with consultation from SAMHSA, will develop a youth -led innovation challenge concept and recruitment strategy around universal primary prevention

• Task 2: Recruitment: contractor will create promotional materials and disseminate the opportunity to young people and the adults that support them through newsletter outreach, targeted asks for our networks of young people, and social media.

• Task 3: Contractor will collect submissions and conducts a review to select up to three finalists.

• Task 4: Contractor will develop a platform for finalists to pitch their ideas at the YTH conference.

• Task 5: Contractor will support a venue for finalists pitch their idea to the audience who will vote on a winner. The winner will be announced in the final session at the event.

• Task 6: Contractor will provide the winner receives a cash award to support their work.

• Task 7: Contractor will promote the winner project across their networks.

o Promotional materials will include SAMHSA branding.

Contractor must have the capacity to engage youth at a national level and have the technical and staffing capacity to oversee a large competition and a venue to support the activities identified above.

5.0 TYPE OF ORDER

This is a firm fixed price purchase order.

6.0 ANTICIPATED PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE

Base Period: September 30, 2023, through September 29, 2024

8.0 REPORT(S)/DELIVERABLES AND DELIVERY SCHEDULE

All written deliverable products shall be submitted in draft format for review, comment and approval by the COR. Final copies of approved drafts shall be delivered to the COR within five

(5) business days after receipt of the Government’s comments.

All written draft and final deliverable products shall be submitted in electronic copy for review and comment. Other quantities and formats may be submitted after prior approval from the COR. Electronic copies shall be submitted in Microsoft Office Word format or PDF.

All deliverables shall be sent electronically (email) per the following deliverable schedule:

DELIVERABLE DELIVERABLE DESCRIPTION / FORMAT

REQUIREMENTS DUE DATE

Task #1

Contractor will develop a challenge concept related to universal prevention and accompanying documentation including a briefing document of not more than three (3) pages on the challenge, scoring, and judging rubrics, and an award with an awarding mechanism.

NLT September 30, 2023

Task #2

Contractor will develop a recruitment strategy to engage youth in the prevention innovation challenge. The recruitment documentation strategy will be no more that 3 pages and include media and network pieces

NLT September 30, 2023

Task #3 Contractor will collect submissions and conducts a review to select up to three finalists.

As directed by

COR

Task #4 Contractor will develop a platform for finalists to pitch their ideas at the YTH conference.

As directed by

COR

Task #5

Contractor will support a venue for finalists pitch their idea to the audience who will vote on a winner. The winner will be announced in the final session at the event.

Task #6 Contractor will provide the winner receives a cash award to support their work.

Task #7 Contractor will promote the winner project across their networks.

NLT 2 weeks prior to end of contract year