Family Preservation Parenting Time Visitation Support Services

RFP issue date: March 18th, 2026

Deadline for bidders to submit questions: April 1st, 2026

Anticipated date the State will post answers to bidder questions: April 3rd, 2026

Proposal deadline: April 15th, 2026

Anticipated contract begin date: October 1st, 2026

The government authority in Lansing, Michigan is seeking a qualified vendor to provide family preservation parenting time visitation support services. These services are intended for families involved with foster care or prevention cases, where children require supervised visitation with the goal of reunification. Eligible families are those with an open foster care case and no substantiated evidence of child abuse or neglect, but where risks to child safety remain, as well as families with prevention services cases.

The selected vendor will facilitate safe, supervised parenting time, enabling children to maintain and strengthen bonds with their parents in a controlled environment while allowing the practice of parenting skills. The service aims to foster healthy parent-child relationships by permitting parents to take the lead during visits, make decisions, and establish routines that can be continued at home. Providers are expected to assist parents in identifying and accessing additional community resources as needed.

The vendor will also provide testimony in court upon request of the referring worker, based on observations from parenting time visits. The anticipated contract period is three years, and a pre-bid meeting is scheduled for April 1, 2026.