The ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES seeks qualified vendors to provide up to at least 750 statewide slots of Therapeutic Foster Care (TFC) services and at least 100 slots of Therapeutic Foster Care -Enhanced (TFC-Enhanced). Additional slots maybe awarded for this procurement based upon needs of the department. Therapeutic Foster Care Foster Care is a time-limited (usually no longer that eighteen months) intensive intervention for children, who are in the custody of the state, not able to live at home, and who fit the diagnostic and behavioral criteria set forth by the Department. Therapeutic Foster Care -Enhanced placements are for intellectually disabled children and youth with mentally ill diagnoses, or for youth classified as having Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), and for children that have severe emotional disorders need that would otherwise require an Enhanced out of state placement.
