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King County, WA
Best Starts for Kids
BSK - Youth and Family Homelessness Prevention Initiative (YFHPI)

CLOSED Deadline 3/25/2022

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Best Starts for Kids (BSK) and the Housing, Homelessness and Community Services Division (HHCDD) of the King County Department of Community and Human Services (DCHS) are pleased to release this Request for Proposals (RFP).

It is the intent of this RFP to solicit agencies who could serve in one of two capacities:

Agencies who would support the efforts of the Youth and Family Homelessness Prevention Initiative (YFHPI) by providing a fulltime case manager who will be highly trained to support King County households in maintaining housing stability using progressive engagement, Motivational Interviewing, and flexible funds where needed (DCHS is estimating up to 15 such awards); or
Agencies who would provide rental assistance to YFHPI households identified to need the stand-alone support of rent without Intensive Case Management (DCHS is estimating approximately 1-2 such awards).

The following timeline represents the initial schedule of the RFP process. The dates listed here are subject to change. Applicants are responsible for monitoring ZoomGrants for any changes prior to the submittal deadline.

Information Sessions: March 2 (1:00pm - 2:30pm) and March 10 (1:00pm - 2:30pm)
Final Day for Questions: March 23
Proposals Due: March 25 by 2:00pm

Eligibility [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.

The most qualified applicants will demonstrate the following:

Programs with experience serving youth and families at imminent risk of homelessness.
Organizations whose mission is to serve communities of color.
Organizations that can provide services in languages spoken by populations identified as over-represented in the homelessness system and/or identified to be at the highest risk of experiencing homelessness.
Provides competitive compensation package to its employees as demonstrated by the applicant’s Wage Sufficiency Plan.
Agree to meet the YFHPI data collection requirements.
Experience with tools that facilitate remote work.
Meet the requirements of the DCHS contract boilerplate; and
Are not debarred from receiving federal funds.

Wage Sufficiency Goals [hide this]

King County seeks to contract with and will prioritize agencies that are committed to compensating case managers at a level that drives case manager retention and the ability to allow staff to become “masters in their craft” at promoting housing stability and homelessness prevention to the benefit of King County residents at imminent risk of homelessness.

Agencies interested in being funded to provide case management services will be asked to speak to the following:

Agency’s annual compensation plan for YFHPI case manager
Inflation Plan
Staff Retention Plan
Accountability Plan

YFHPI case managers are highly trained housing triage specialists working with extremely vulnerable households that are struggling with losing their housing. This includes multitudes of complications that contribute to the risks of housing loss and obtaining long-term housing stability.

King County analyzed the wages of case managers in YFHPI from 2016-2021, and beyond finding lower wages, YFHPI case managers experienced high staff turnover rates overall, with case manager turnover rates higher for some agencies than others. High case manager turnover impacts attainment of housing stability for highly vulnerable households. For this version of YFHPI, DCHS strives to ensure equity for all funded case managers.

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Description	File Name	Date Uploaded	File Type
YFHPI Request for Proposals	BSK-HCDD-YFHPI_2022-Final.pdf	2/28/2022 3:33:39 PM	PDF
Narrative Questions (Att 1)	Attachment_1-YFHPI_Narrative_Questions.docx	2/28/2022 3:34:24 PM	DOCX
Budget Form (Att 2)	Attachment_2-YFHPI_Budget_w_Justification.xls	2/28/2022 3:44:32 PM	XLS
Technical Assistance Consultants (Att 4)	Attachment_4-Technical_Consultants_2022.docx	2/28/2022 3:45:14 PM	DOCX
DCHS Contract (Att 5)	Attachment_5-DCHS_Contract_Terms.pdf	2/28/2022 3:48:07 PM	PDF
YFHPI Addendum 1	BSK-HCDD-YFHPI_2022-A1.pdf	3/21/2022 10:20:37 AM	PDF

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1. Please check the box for each of the qualification areas listed below for which the applicant has experience at the time of submitting a proposal, or agrees to as a condition of submitting a proposal.

	Direct experience providing homelessness prevention services
	Mission to serve communities of color
	Multi-lingual staff
	Has a competitive compensation plan
	Agree to YFHPI data collection requirements
	Read and meet requirements of King County DCHS contract boilerplate
	Agency is not debarred from receiving federal funds

2. If your organization has ever contracted, managed or accounted for federal, state, or local government funds, please briefly describe that experience. If not, please indicate N/A and respond to the next question.

3. If your organization has not contracted, managed or accounted for government funds, please describe how you intend to manage these funds should you receive an award under this RFP. Please include in your answer if your organization would seek a fiscal agent and/or if your organization would seek technical assistance (neither is required).

4. Describe any audit findings or concerns during the last 24 months as well as the resolution of each (this can be a financial statement audit, federal single audit, monitoring site visit by King County or another federal, state or local agency). If there was a summary report of the outcome produced for any audit, please attach this report to your application under Documents Requested below.

5. Describe your organization's financial management system. How do you establish and maintain general accounting principles, sound accounting systems and internal controls? If your organization is new or in its early stages, describe how you intend to structure these systems, what in-house experience exists in your organization to establish these systems, and what, if any, assistance you are seeking to ensure these systems are established.

6. Describe your agency’s ability to meet program expenses in advance of reimbursement. Will you require monthly or quarterly reimbursement? Could your organization float expenses for up to two months?

7. On September 22, 2021, the King County Executive issued Executive Order #ACO-8-28-EO, which requires certain workers of King County contractors to be fully vaccinated before beginning work if those workers 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.

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1. Which program are you applying for?
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2. Please identify the primary community your agency serves. How is the same community over-represented in the homeless system? Please speak to how your agency/staff will ensure that your primary community of focus is aware your agency has resources to assist households at imminent risk of becoming homeless. How will you promote the services to the community?
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3. Please talk about your experience providing homelessness prevention services. What is unique about your organization that we should consider when looking across similar applicants? What makes your agency the best candidate to do this important work with King County?
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4. If we do not select your agency to partner with us, what will be the direct impact to the community? Who will we not reach because of the decision to fund a different partner?
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5. What do you believe constitutes effective case management? What is your agency’s experience providing case management to youth and/or families with youth?
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6. YFHPI requires working with the highest needs, most complex households. More people will seek support than can be supported with this program. All households will feel they will be at the highest threshold of risk, but most will not be. Please speak to how you will manage telling people they do not qualify for this program. What impacts will there be from a cultural perspective? How will you manage the expectations of your community?
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7. Tell us about a time that you have accepted a contract where you would be supporting a program that was designed, evaluated and overseen by the funder but your staff would be delivering the services. What challenges did you encounter with this model? What supports did you need in order to be effective with service delivery? If you have not had a contract where the program was designed, evaluated and overseen by a funder, what challenges do you foresee?
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8. Please describe the most challenging equity and social justice (ESJ) issues impacting the community you prioritize for services. How will your agency provide services in a way that ensures people’s cultures and values are respected? Provide a direct example of how you have delivered services in a culturally responsive manner. While you should not use actual names, you should tell us how you have worked to provide services to a household (preferably homelessness prevention services) where understanding the culture and/or race were critical to effective service delivery.
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9. What is your agency’s experience gathering and reporting on programmatic data as required by a funder? What database system(s) have you used in the past to track client level data? Are you willing to comply with all elements of data collection identified throughout this RFP? Answer "Yes" or "No." What is your experience using data to report out to stakeholders and/or your board or leadership for your organization? Please provide a very clear example of when you have used data in this manner. If you have no experience in data collection and evaluation, please identify if you are willing to receive support in this area from King County to develop your capacity in and around data and evaluation.
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10. Please describe your agency’s annual compensation plan. Please identify: (a) What the hourly/annual salary is for YFHPI case manager; (b) How you plan to increase case manager wages (annual raises, performance-based adjustments, etc.); (c) What are all benefits paid to YFHPI case manager (i.e., medical, dental, insurance, bonus structure(s), etc.); and (d) How many days off does your case manager receive (all PTO and/or sick leave)?
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11. What is your plan to adjust wages for inflation? Please describe: (a) How will your agency adjust annual salary rates based on inflation? (b) Does your budget reflect anticipated costs of inflation? Answer "Yes" or "No."
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12. What is your plan to ensure staff retention? (a) How does your agency work to ensure/maintain staff (retention)? (b) How often does your agency evaluate changes in staff (retention)? (c) What is your plan to support the person not only in their employment but with training and advancement opportunities? (d) What is your plan for supervision of the case manager? (e) How will your agency work with the case manager to build rapport with the community?
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13. Accountability Plan. Please describe: (a) How will you hold your agency accountable for ensuring low case manager turn-over? (b) King County will be assessing agency performance quarterly. Please describe what you think King County should be looking at when considering accountability for agencies funded to provide case management services.
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