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King County, WA
Best Starts for Kids
Department of Community & Human Services
BSK - Stopping the School-to-Prison Pipeline Community Supports 2022 RFP
CLOSED  Deadline  5/9/2022
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SSPP Program Description  [hide this]

This Request for Proposals (RFP) is to promote sustainable economic strengthening through workforce and career development experiences, opportunities, education, guidance, relationships, and other efforts related to economic strengthening including apprenticeship-type programs and positive identity development. For those who are interested, this includes promoting, providing support and services for the T3AMS programming.

Please review the full RFP document in the Library tab for a complete description of this funding opportunity and the proposal requirements.

Background

One of SSPP’s three primary strategies is Employment and Economic Development. This provides intentional guidance and connection to resources related primarily to employment and education opportunities such as paid skills/job training and shadowing, paid internships, civic and business leadership development, career and land stewardship mentoring, and culturally reflective mental health and well-being supports.

This strategy is about cultivating and equipping the brilliance of the next generation of adults, especially Black and Indigenous young people, to help them see themselves as invaluable leaders and their contribution to shaping their/our future. Our young people and their families most negatively targeted by systemic racism and the school to prison pipeline face ongoing economic hardship and devastation further highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic. These systemic hardships have a strong correlation to unstable housing, low sense of well-being, unemployment, school absences, increased criminal legal involvement and violence, to name a few.[1]  In the best interest of the communities we seek to serve, we champion County investments and a coordinated systemic response to economically uplift negatively impacted communities sufficiently in order to create sustainable gains and negate one-off limited approaches.

All 3 strategies are described below in more detail.

Data

  • Unemployment. Black residents (7.7%) have higher unemployment rates than the average King County resident (4.2%).
  • Unemployment during COVID-19. 42% of workers in King County who identified as Black/African American filed unemployment claims between March 2020 and March 2021.
  • Median Household Income. The median income of Black households ($49,846) is nearly half the median income of the average King County resident ($94,974).

Positive Identify Development

We engage in liberation and sovereignty when we pursue the restoration of our historical narrative and heritage, and foster reconnection to ancestors and cultural community. This is especially the case for Black and Indigenous folks who were ripped from their ancestral lands and culture, forced into widescale human trafficking and enslavement, and suffered genocide over the course of hundreds of years. It is important to rebuild and reinforce young people’s sense of heritage and its intersections with community. This is fundamental for young people to better understand who they are, and establish a strong sense of self-worth, voice, acceptance, and belonging. These are building blocks for aspirations, caring for others, confidence to follow and lead, and benefit from our economic ecosystem.

Economic Strengthening and Solvency

This RFP is also intended to create economic opportunities that contribute to the underlying determinants of success and well-being including access to quality education, housing, and health. When our young people see their value AND are able access viable opportunities, it cultivates aspirations and drives their ambitions, which can in turn feed their overall sense of confidence and outlook on their lives. Equitable access to suitable resources includes removing institutional and systemic barriers. Thus, this RFP is partly about forging attainable and sustainable pathways of success for young people and their families that go beyond temporary employment solutions. 

Theft 3 and Mall Safety (T3AMS)

The T3AMS program, initially launched as a pilot project in April 2017, provides an alternative to filing charges against youth (12 – 18 years old) who shoplift, damage property, and/or fight at the Westfield Southcenter Mall in Tukwila through on-site, community-based services. A collaboration of the Westfield Southcenter Mall management and security, the Tukwila Police Department, and community-based service providers, supported by BSK, encourages positive behavior, and connects young people where there is law enforcement involvement or risk of violence, with mentoring and guidance, academic support, and employment assistance. Providing these services breaks the harmful cycle of arrest and prosecution and reduces costs for businesses related to theft and disruption.

 

Any Questions?

Written Questions 

All RFP documents will be uploaded through ZoomGrants, as described in Section VII, Proposal Process, which can be found in the RFP document in the Library tab.

The Contract Monitor is the point of contact for this procurement. All communication regarding the subject matter of this opportunity between the applicants and DCHS upon release of this RFP must be through ZoomGrants or the Contract Monitor, as follows:

Contract Monitor
Mahogany Purpose
mpurpose@kingcounty.gov

Any other communication will be considered unofficial and non-binding on King County. Applicants are to rely on written statements issued by the Contract Monitor. Communication directed to parties other than the Contract Monitor on this opportunity may result in disqualification of the applicant.

Information Sessions for Live Questions & Answers

A pre-proposal information session is scheduled to be held at the date and time indicated in the schedule. The location of the information session will be via Zoom:

All prospective applicants should attend; however, attendance is not mandatory.

DCHS will only adhere to the DCHS-written answers to questions. Questions arising at the pre-proposal information session or in subsequent communication with the Contract Monitor will be documented and answered in written form. A copy of the questions and answers will be posted as an RFP amendment on ZoomGrants. Applicants are responsible to check ZoomGrants for any posted amendments to this RFP.

 


Who Can Apply  [hide this]

This request is open to nonprofit organizations, community-based organizations, tribes and tribal organizations, and public or governmental agencies serving communities in King County. Small nonprofits and community-based organizations are encouraged to submit proposals.

Eligible applicants must meet the following minimum qualifications:

  1. This request is only open to organizations serving communities in King County that are any of the following: 
    1. not-for-profit organizations (or fiscally sponsored by an organization) with 501(c)3 status (including community-based or faith-based organizations)
    2. tribes and tribal organizations
    3. schools and school districts
    4. public or governmental entities: community-based, faith-based, tribes and tribal, schools and school districts, public or governmental organizations serving communities in King County
  2. Applicants who are currently funded by other sources (including other BSK/King County funding) for the same programming, must clearly delineate the proposed programming.


How to Request Help on Your Proposal  [hide this]

Free proposal assistance (also known as technical assistance) is available to support organizations in applying to this RFP. The main purpose of this opportunity is to eliminate linguistic, cultural, and other barriers that might prevent organizations from seeking government funding.

Technical assistance consultants can:

  1. Assist in determining appropriate fit between your proposal and this funding opportunity.
  2. Provide guidance on how best to answer questions.
  3. Support your proposal development, including editing and budget review.
  4. Support you in explaining your proposal in the most clear and concise way. However, technical assistance consultants are not grant writers.

See Appendix Section XII.E. for a list of consultants. Organizations wishing to access proposal assistance should email the consultants directly. To ensure high quality support, please initiate any assistance request at least 14 calendar days prior to the RFP’s closing date. Availability of assistance is based on consultant capacity.


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Description File Name Date Uploaded File Type
SSPP RFP BSKSSPPRFP2022_Final.pdf 3/28/2022 5:01:33 PM PDF
Amendment 1_Q&A SSPPRFP_Amendment1.pdf 4/6/2022 4:44:11 PM PDF
Amendment 2_CORRECTION to max amount requested SSPPRFP_Amendment2.pdf 4/8/2022 2:14:43 PM PDF
Amendment 3_Q&A_Info Session Recording and Slides SSPPRFP_Amendment3.pdf 4/11/2022 3:29:22 PM PDF
Amendment 4_Q&A_and_Character limit change SSPPRFP_Amendment4.pdf 4/19/2022 7:13:06 AM PDF
Amendment 5_Q&A SSPPRFP_Amendment5.pdf 4/25/2022 12:33:55 PM PDF
Amendment 6_Q&A SSPPRFP_Amendment6.pdf 5/5/2022 4:31:40 PM PDF
Q&A - complete list FulllistofQAtodate.pdf 5/5/2022 4:31:52 PM PDF


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1. On September 22, 2021, the King County Executive issued Executive Order #ACO-8-28-EO, which requires workers of King County contractors to be fully vaccinated before beginning work if the organization will be: 1) providing on-site services on county property or in county facilities, or 2) providing services requiring interaction with the general public. If you are awarded a contract as a result of this RFP, you will need to submit an Evidence of Vaccination – Attestation form to King County before you can begin performing services. If you have concerns about meeting this requirement, please reach out to the RFP Lead through the Admin Tab in ZoomGrants. You can read more information about this Executive Order here. Please check the box below to confirm:
More information on the Executive Order, Attestation Form, and FAQs about the Executive Order can be found here: https://kingcounty.gov/depts/finance-business-operations/procurement/for-business/vaccination-mandate.aspx


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Select “All” only if you are planning and able to serve clients from every zip code within King County. This is being collected for information purposes only. This question is not scored as part of the evaluation process.