The Napa County Health and Human Services Agency desires to solicit qualified proposals to provide Kinship Support Service Program (KSSP) for kinship families and kinship caregivers countywide in foster care.

The Kinship Support Service Program supports and assists kinship families and kinship caregivers in raising a relative youth if an out of home placement must occur. The goal is to provide services for kinship families and kinship caregivers countywide. In addition, the goal is also to ensure and promote safety, permanency, and wellbeing for these families in order to provide these families with successful and positive outcomes. The benefits of kin placements include minimized trauma, improved well-being, increased permanency, kin placements are more stable and willing to maintain sibling groups together, preserves a cultural identity and ties to community.