Counseling Services for Fee Readjustment Counseling
RFP VA256-16-R-0154 attached.
The Alexandria VA Health Care System is seeking vendors/contractors to provide Readjustment Counseling to veterans of the military service.
Period of Performance will begin 01 April 2017 and end 31 March 2018.
This is planned to be a base contract with four (4) one (1) year option periods. A total of 5 years of service is planned for this contract.
Services provided will be in support of the Alexandria VA Health Care System and the Rapides Parish Veterans Center in Alexandria, LA.
Services will be provided at the contractor s facility located in or around Natchitoches, LA postal zip code 71457.
Services will be provided by an LCSW.
These services will be provided to veterans that live within a 50 mile radius of the Natchitoches, LA area and these services are closer than travel to the Rapides Parish Veterans Center in Alexandria, LA.
Description of Services Provided: Contract readjustment counseling includes the same mix of social and psychological services as provided at Vet Centers, with the exception of community outreach. The purpose of the contracts program, as intended by Congress and implemented by VA, is for the provision of readjustment counseling and not for general mental health services. Contract readjustment counseling may include social services and/or psychotherapy, but the services provided must address readjustment difficulties deriving from military duties and/or homecoming experiences. The provision of services for problems not having a clear and distinct relationship to military duty and readjustment to civilian life from military duty, is not authorized.
Contractor will not be required to provide general mental health services, but only readjustment counseling for the problems that bear a distinct and crucial relation to readjustment from military duty, for example:
Psychosocial problems related to exposure to war trauma.
Other aspects of duty in the Southeast Asia combat zone, or other zones previously cited.
Post-traumatic stress disorder.
Stresses unique to military duty during conflicts.
Psychological concern over a possible service connected condition.
Psychosocial problems related to substance abuse clinically associated with military duty or post-military readjustment.
Post combat zone experiences to include homecoming and re-entry experiences.
Post military discharge environmental stressors exacerbating the effects of military duty stressors.
Psychological concern over possible exposure to chemical and/or biological agents in the war-zone.
Generalized alienation from society manifested by interruption of normal readjustment processes.
Psychosocial problems about type of military discharge other than dishonorable.
Financial difficulties created by the loss of income as a result of active duty service.
Difficulties created by the reversal of roles within the marriage as a result of the active duty service of one or both member of the marital couple.
Psychological stress upon the marriage created due to the disability incurred by one of the marital partners as a result of the active duty service.
The provision of medications and physical examinations are not to be considered a component of readjustment counseling, and therefore, will not be provided under this contract mechanism.
A visit shall consist of a minimum of 45 minutes. A group counseling visit will consist of a minimum of 90 minutes.
Martin Priest
martin.priest@va.gov
Martin.Priest@va.gov
