DCY-C-2627-0009R High-Quality Legal Representation for Parents

The Ohio Department of Children and Youth is seeking proposals to enhance access to and improve the quality of legal representation for parents, children, and kinship caregivers involved in the child welfare system. The selected offeror will implement and oversee statewide strategies to address key barriers and promote meaningful improvements in legal representation. The scope of work includes training development and delivery, recruitment and retention, grants for pilot program expansion, scholarship opportunities, assessment of barriers, and innovative strategies. The offeror must have experience in funding or implementing projects to improve access to and build capacity for high-quality legal representation. Some key points of this RFP include: • The offeror must submit a technical proposal and a cost proposal as separate sections of its proposal. • The offeror must include sufficient data to allow the state to verify the total cost for the work and all of the offeror's claims of meeting the RFP's requirements. • The offeror must respond to every request for information in this RFP, whether the request requires a simple "yes" or "no" or requires a detailed explanation. • The state may reject any proposal for various reasons, including failure to comply with the procedure for participating in the RFP process or failure to meet the RFP requirements.