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Best Starts for Kids (BSK) is an initiative to improve the health and well-being of King County by investing in promotion, prevention, and early intervention for children, youth, families, and communities. Best Starts for Kids is rooted in the fundamental belief – from within King County government and across King County’s richly diverse communities – that our county is a region of considerable opportunity, and that we all benefit when each and every King County child, youth and young adult is supported to achieve their fullest potential. Lives of health, prosperity and purpose must be within reach for every King County resident. With Best Starts for Kids, we will work to assure that neither zip code nor family income constrain our young people from pursuing lives of promise and possibility. All the work of Best Starts for Kids will aim to drive toward the following three overarching results: Babies are born healthy and are provided with a strong foundation for lifelong health and wellbeing. King County is a place where everyone has equitable opportunities to be safe and healthy as they progress through childhood, building academic and life skills to be thriving members of their communities.
Communities offer safe, welcoming and healthy environments that help improve outcomes for all of King County’s children and families, regardless of where they live.
EQUITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE For many in our region, King County is a great place to live, learn, work and play. Yet we have deep and persistent inequities - especially by race and place - that in many cases are getting worse and threaten our collective prosperity. Launched by King County Executive Ron Sims in 2008 and formalized by Executive Dow Constantine and the Metropolitan King County Council via ordinance in 2010, Equity and Social Justice (ESJ) is an integrated part of the County’s work and foundational to the work of Best Starts for Kids. Our goal is to ensure that all people, regardless of who they are and where they live, have the opportunity to thrive, with full and fair access to opportunities, power, and resources. For all BSK funded programs, we seek to support organizations that are reflective of and embedded in the communities they serve, and recognize and address the disparities and disproportionality that exist in our communities.
DESCRIPTION The Best Starts for Kids Implementation Plan identifies the importance of keeping youth positively connected to their families through parent/caregiver support and activities that strengthen families as a priority. It is known that young people who have a trusted adult to turn to are much more likely to be successful in many areas of life from academic success, employment attainment, positive social emotional development as well as avoiding risky behaviors and are more able to resist negative peer pressure. There is a dramatic shift in the needs of parents and caregivers when the children reach the pre-teen and teenage stage of life because young people at this age are going through another rapid developmental process that includes but is not limited to trying to figure out who they are and where they fit in and testing boundaries of independence from the adults in their life while still needing the security of limits to keep them safe and support them to make healthy choices. Add in the stress of poverty, cultural divides between parents who are raised in the home country and their “Americanized” children to this challenging time and one can easily see how the divides between the young person and their adult caregivers can grow and even can result in a permanent rift.
Finding ways to support the families at this critical developmental juncture is challenging because many of the parent support groups that exist in communities are focused on families with new babies or children under 5. In addition to this, young people may be resistant to doing activities with their families because of the increasing importance of peer relationships at this age. In addition the inherent busy-ness of lives with teenagers who are balancing school demands, work and possibly extracurricular activities. Innovative, creative and culturally responsive approaches to meet families’ needs are essential to success of programs funded under this strategy.
This funding opportunity: This RFP seeks to fund programs and activities to support families with middle school and high school age youth as they navigate their changing relationships in order to strengthen the family, particularly the relationship between the young person and their parents/adult caregivers. Successful programs will: Reflect the needs and the desires of the community they serve (for example: the setting where the program is offered, program design, who delivers the program etc). Respect and lift up the voices of the parents/caregivers and young people as leaders and decision-makers in their own lives. Focus on building protective and promotive factors such as: reducing sources of stress in the families’ lives, increase social connections to decrease isolation, provide concrete support in times of need, increase the knowledge of adolescent development and increase the social and emotional competence of young people.
Be relationship-based.
B. EXAMPLES OF POSSIBLE APPROACHES AND STRATEGIES (Note: these are just examples, we encourage organizations to innovate and think creatively about how to best serve their communities and ask for direct input from the community to design the approach).
Parent/Caregiver of LGBTQ teens support group. Supports for Foster/Adoptive families. Parent Networks/Peer to Peer supports for families. Implement an evidence-based curricula that specifically address the unique needs of parenting this age group. Outdoor education experiences to improve caregiver/young person communication Series of educational workshops around adolescent development and brain development Community planning process that leads to family strengthening program implementation . Comprehensive family support program located within a specific geographic location. C. ELIGIBILITY This announcement is open to not-for-profit organizations, community-based organizations, tribes and tribal organizations, schools and school districts, and public or governmental agencies serving communities in King County. Small non-profits and community-based organizations.
D. INVESTMENT AVAILABLE Time frame: January 2020- December 2021 Total Investment available: $4.8 million until December 31, 2021 (estimated 10-12 contracts); each proposal should not exceed $125,000/ year
EVALUATION AND FREE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE [hide this]
If you receive funding, Best Starts for Kids will need your participation in developing an evaluation plan, data collection and reporting, and other activities to support evaluation and learning. In order to demonstrate your ability to meet this request, please address the following two areas in your application: Build time and resources for evaluation into your project budget (up to 10%) In describing your proposed work, discuss how it connects to the three overarching BSK results described above. You are NOT required to submit a detailed evaluation plan as part of your application. After funding decisions have been made, BSK Evaluation staff will work collaboratively with grantees to identify mutually agreed upon evaluation goals. We want to build a strong relationship with our grantees. With consistent communication and mutual trust, we will collectively learn from successes and challenges.
Free technical assistance is available to support organizations in developing proposals. While technical assistance is available to all, the main purpose of this opportunity is to eliminate the linguistic, cultural, and other barriers that might prevent organizations from seeking government funding. BSK’s technical assistance providers offer a wide range of skills, areas of expertise, and language abilities. Technical assistance can:
• Assist in determining appropriate fit between your proposal and the RFP • Provide guidance on how best to answer questions • Support application review, including editing and budget review This service is being offered at no cost to applicants. Applicants can request technical assistance from [October 7, 2019] to [three business days before the RFP close date 11/18/19]. In order to ensure the best support possible for applicants, we request the following:
• Please reach out to technical assistance providers as early as possible after the RFP opens. Providers may be able to accommodate last-minute requests on an as-needed basis, but are more able to provide the full amount of time and support for earlier requests.
• Please contact one technical assistance provider at a time and give them at least 24 hours to respond before seeking another provider.
• We welcome applicants’ desire to find a cultural, linguistic, and personal match. If you have connected with a technical assistance provider and decide to work with someone else, please inform the initial provider directly. To access free technical assistance, please email our providers directly. More information on technical assistance providers and their contact information can be found here.
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PROJECT NARRATIVE (SCOPE OF WORK) QUESTIONS
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Please address all of the questions below in a 4- to 5-page with 12-point font, single-spaced, 1-inch margins narrative. Please ensure that there is sufficient detail in your narrative in order for reviewers to have a clear understanding of your chosen strategies and approaches.
1. Who are you proposing to work with?
Who do you plan to serve (community description, race/ethnicity, income level, geography etc)?
Why do you feel it is important to focus on this community?
What primary challenges or disparities do the communities face?
What community strengths will you leverage during program development and implementation? Please provide additional data or stories to show how your chosen group will benefit from this program.
Note: BSK supports the use of all types of data (stories, observation, photographs, statistics etc.). Data on King County health and well-being that may be helpful for applicants can be found on the Communities Count Web page: www.communitiescount.or
2. How do you plan to work with your selected group?
Program Description
Describe your proposed program. What do you plan to do? What are your goals? What do you think you will impact How do they relate to the BSK indicators?
Why do you think this is the best way to work with/for this particular community?
Who helped you design this program and in what ways?
3. Why is your organization well suited to successfully implement this program? Consider factors such as:
Relationships with, and deep knowledge about, the focus community
Support from organizational leadership
Experience developing or delivering related services
Any outcomes achieved in current or past agency programs
Experienced staff who are culturally and linguistically matched to families/communities to be served
4. Clearly describe how community and young people will be involved with planning, implementation, and evaluation of the proposed program.
5. What is your vision and mission?
Budget Year One and Two
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If you are doing a Collective Application please 1. Complete the “Overall Program Budget” on ZoomGrants as a whole 2. Go to the Documents Tab and upload the “Attachment #3 Budget Form and Narrative” for each participating organization/stakeholder. 3. Only complete the “Salary Expense” portion in ZoomGrants If you are NOT doing a Collective Application please 1. Complete the “Overall Program Budget” on ZoomGrants 2. Only complete the “Salary Expense” portion in ZoomGrants
Form Instructions
a. Overall Program Budget 1. Use the “funding request” column to indicate the requested funding amount 2. Use the “funding from other revenue sources” column to describe the remaining portion of expenses that will be funded by other revenue sources. 3. If no other funding will be used/leveraged, please leave the “funding from other revenue sources” blank. 4. The “Total Program Expense” column should total all expenses related to this particular program. If using other funding for this program, please identify the source of funding. b. Overall Program Budget Narrative 1. For each line item, provide the estimated amount need per month. For line items without monthly costs please provide the estimated total. 2. For instance... i. Salary Wages and Benefits: 2 FTE direct Service FTE.5 Supervision ii. Operating Costs: Rent, Utilities, Vans, Database, Curriculum etc. iii. Participant Cost: Stipends, Event Entry, Food, etc. iv. Consultants/Sub-Contracts: Capacity Building Support and Direct Service Sub-Contractors v. Administrative Costs: Staff That Provide Administrative Support Including IT and Accounting c. Salary Expense 1. Under “Position Title – (Organization if Applicable)” indicate the persons role in the organization a. Only indicate the organization if you are doing a collective application 2. Under “Annual Base Salary” indicate each person’s total salary for this program and others. 3. Under “FTE” indicate the amount of hours each person works for the organization overall (not just for this project). 4. Under “% of time attributable to the project” indicate how much of the person “FTE” will go towards this project. 5. Under “Total salary attributable to project” indicate how much of the person “Annual Salary” will go towards this project.
Budget Year One
*Participant Costs: are costs associated directly to the youth and young adults that are receiving Community Supports Services *Operating Costs: are costs associated directly to a specific program - such as office supplies, communications, equipment maintenance/rental, building rent and utilities. **Administrative Costs: are overall shared costs such as general administrative staff time, central rates, IT costs, fiscal sections costs, etc.
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*Participant Costs: are costs associated directly to the youth and young adults that are receiving Community Supports Services *Operating Costs: are costs associated directly to a specific program - such as office supplies, communications, equipment maintenance/rental, building rent and utilities. **Administrative Costs: are overall shared costs such as general administrative staff time, central rates, IT costs, fiscal sections costs, etc.
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Budget Year One and Two Narrative (Discuss the items and amounts you entered above.)
Salary Expense
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Salary Expense 1. Under “Position Title – (Organization if Applicable)” indicate the persons role in the organization a. Only indicate the organization if you are doing a collective application 2. Under “Annual Base Salary” indicate each person’s total salary for this program and others. 3. Under “FTE” indicate the amount of hours each person works for the organization overall (not just for this project). 4. Under “% of time attributable to the project” indicate how much of the person “FTE” will go towards this project. 5. Under “Total salary attributable to project” indicate how much of the person “Annual Salary” will go towards this project.
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