Texas Correction - 2/18/08

[Smartmarriages]

It's official.  I'm fired.  Who wants to take over???

At least a bunch of you reading who are of sound mind. Six of you sent this
tonight within hrs of my post titled "Trying to answer your questions on the
Texas Initiative.....(it's a good thing I said TRYING):
http://lists101.his.com/pipermail/smartmarriages/2008-February/003661.html

It seems I sent an email to the list just nine days ago that listed the
Texas Intermediaries.  It just shows that not being funded and not having a
my own marriage education program to worry about "placing", I don't track
this whole funding business very well.  I listen to your consternation and
try to find answers, but it goes in one ear and out to the list, and then
"poof"...I lose track. My apologies.

ALSO, I don't seem to know the difference between HHS REGION VI (with
responsibilities for AR, LA, NM, OK, TX) and the Texas state HHSC. My
apologies to Larry McDowell.  Do not contact Larry! Instead, contact Thomas
Spears with HHSC, the person listed in this announcement below. - diane

Here, again, is what I sent out on 2/9/08:

> Texas was divided into regions with one agency selected for each region to
> provide the marriage education services funded by the $7.5 MILLION PER YEAR
> 1% solution set-aside of Texas TANF funds to strengthen marriage. This is
> the list of selected agencies each receiving $950K a year.  Here is the
> language in the original RFP. - diane
>  
>> HHSC seeks up to nine Vendors/Regional Intermediaries to provide
>> capacity-building and service delivery management for premarital and healthy
>> marriage education services with community- and/or faith-based organizations
>> working in the area of healthy marriage development for HHSC Regions
>  
> And here are the recipients, the intermediaries:
>  
>> The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) announce tentative
>> contract awards for Twogether in Texas Healthy Marriage Program, RFP #
>> 529-08-0075, to:
>> * Region 1:    The Legacy Group- $950K
>> * Region 2:    Texas Family Institute of Abilene- $950K
>> * Region 3E: Alliance of North Texas Healthy Effective Marriages (ANTHEM)-
>> $950K 
>> * Region 4:     Longview Wellness Center- $950K
>> * Region 5:     Family Services Southeast Texas- $950K
>> * Region 7:     Lutheran Social Services of the South- $950K
>> * Region 8:     Family Services Association of San Antonio- $950K
>> * Region 9:     American Grant Management- $950K
>> * Region 10:   Model City of El Paso- $950K
>> 
>> These awards are contingent upon the successful negotiation and execution of
>> contracts.  In the event negotiations for any of these contracts are
>> unsuccessful, HHSC may initiate negotiations with the next successful vendor
>> or vendors. http://www.hhsc.state.tx.us/
>  
> Point of Contact for Information:
>  
>> Thomas Spears, Contract Administrator
>> Texas Health and Human Services Commission
>> Fax:  (512) 206-5006
>> thomas.spears at hhsc.state.tx.us
>> <http://lists101.his.com/mailman/listinfo/smartmarriages>