SUDP Residential Treatment Facility VA Central California Health Care System

A. PURPOSE.

The Department of Veterans Affairs, Fresno, CA (VA) requires contractors to provide services of a Substance Use Disorder Program (SUDP) for Veterans. The goal of the SUDP is to place Veterans in a community-based, residential environment with sufficient therapeutic services to meet the needs of those Veterans.



B. BACKGROUND.

Through the SUDP program, VA provides case management services to Veterans and facilitates their access to a broad range of medical, mental health, and rehabilitative services. The purpose of this contract is to identify contractors who can provide care, treatment and rehabilitative services to veterans suffering from serious mental illness, including veterans who are in community-based treatment facilities offering a safe and secure environment that supports their rehabilitation goals. The Contractor will be required to provide therapeutic and rehabilitative services, but will not be required to provide detoxification or other hospital level treatment - those services will be provided by the VA at VA facilities.



BASIC SERVICES REQUIRED.

(1) Structured group activities as appropriate - examples include group therapy, social skills training, Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, or other twelve-step Programs, vocational counseling and physical activities as appropriate.

(2) Collaboration with the VA program staff, which will provide supportive psychosocial services.

(3) Individual professional counseling, including counseling on self-care skills, adaptive coping skills and, as appropriate, vocational rehabilitation counseling, in collaboration with VA program and community resources.

(4) Assistance to develop responsible living patterns, to maintain an acceptable level of personal hygiene and grooming, and to achieve a more adaptive level of psychosocial functioning, upgraded social skills, and improved personal relationships.

(5) Support for an alcohol/drug abuse-free lifestyle provided in an environment conducive to social interaction and the fullest development of the resident's rehabilitative potential.

(6) Assistance to gain and to apply knowledge of the illness/recovery process in an environment supportive of recovery models.

(7) A program that promotes community interaction.