Description
The Department of Children and Families (DCF) is seeking responses from bidders to purchase and maintain a network of qualified summer camp contractors, with programs based throughout the Commonwealth. The summer camps should provide a safe and supportive environment for children, promote their well-being, encourage and stimulate their healthy emotional, social, and physical development. The target population for the summer camps is DCF youth who are at home and deemed in need of preventative services, in foster care, particularly kinship resources, siblings of DCF youth in foster care, or identified by an DCF Area Office Manager needing this service. The summer camps should be creative, safe, and supportive environments for youth of diverse ethnic backgrounds.
Key aspects of the summer camps include:
* Providing a program of activities and physical environment that meets the generally recognized needs of the campers
* Ensuring the health and safety of campers
* Providing administrative support for other summer camp programs
* Complying with 105 CMR 430.00 Minimum Standards for Recreational Camps for Children
* Having a licensed physician, certified nurse practitioner, or physician assistant as the camp's health care consultant
* Maintaining health records for each camper and staff person
* Providing training to staff on first aid, health care, and other relevant topics.