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APPROACH: Innovation

Innovation for Prenatal to Five:

• Existing evidence-based and evidence-informed models do not work for all communities.

• Stakeholders within communities must take the lead in identifying their challenges and solutions.

• New approaches are needed for systems change

Funding Specifics

Supporting Children and Families: We are looking to fund programs that directly serve children and families prenatally to age five, which are new or have been adapted to meet the need of a focus population. Our goal is to ensure that the focus community has helped identify the need or aspiration for the innovation being proposed and will assist in the co-creation of the solution.

Supporting Service Providers: We are looking to support professionals who serve children and families (e.g., child care teachers, home visitors, and others) to ensure they provide high-quality care to children and families. This may include approaches for peer learning or training. Most importantly, they must demonstrate that the service providers have been involved in identifying the unmet need or problem behind the innovation and will assist in co-creation of the innovation.

Changing Systems: We are looking to fund efforts to break down institutional and structural racism within systems that make policies for, or touch the lives of, families with children prenatal to five. These may build upon relationships with new or non-traditional partners, and they must ensure the community(ies) most affected are involved in identifying the problem and helping to co-create the solution

Funding Specifics: 13 grantees

• Phase I: $50,000 planning

• Phase II: $25,000 start-up plus $150,000 per year

• Phase III: $150,000 plus 3% increase

Phase I: 6 months

October 1, 2018 -March 31, 2019

Phase II: 9 months

April 1, 2019 -December 31, 2019

Phase III: 12 months

January 1, 2020 -December 31, 2020

Funding Specifics: Capacity Building

IDEAS Impact Framework Workshop: • October 15 from 8:30am-5:30 pm.

• October 16 and 17 or October 18 and 19

• Theory of Change

• Program Documents

• Evaluation Plan

• Program Budget

FUNDING PRIORITIES/ PROCESS

The most successful applicant(s) will demonstrate the following experience and core competencies:

• Commitment to King County Equity and Social Justice strategic plan’s vision and goals.

• Project meets the needs of stakeholders within communities of color and/or underserved communities.

• Community stakeholders, including the population served by the proposed program, are meaningfully engaged.

FUNDING PRIORITIES/ PROCESS

The most successful applicant(s) will demonstrate the following innovation priorities:

• Strengthens or extends a program, strategy or system in a new or different way to serve a need and provide a solution identified by the community being served.

• Finds unique ways to support those who are caring for young children and families and provides them with supports to learn from peers and more formal trainings in ways that work best for them.

• Is designed through co-creation that involves input from both community and providers and has ongoing plans for engaging with community.

• Uses a combination of science-based evidence and community-informed evidence to identify solutions that work.

• Furthers equity and social justice through program innovations that meet the needs of marginalized communities, including communities of color, refugee and immigrant communities, LGBTQ communities, and those with special needs.

• Build on grassroots approaches to make systemic change within systems that work with young children and families.

• Focuses on one or more of the three principles to improve outcomes for children and families identified by the Center on the Developing Child: 1) supports responsive relationships, 2) reduces sources of stress, and/ or 3) strengthens core life skills. We will provide more information about these three principles in the Innovation Webinar. You can also find additional information here:

• https://developingchild.harvard.edu/resources/three-early-childhood-development-principles-improve-child-family-outcomes/

Funding Specifics: Timeline

RFP Issued June 21, 2018

Innovation Webinar and Information Session Webinar,

12:30pm-2:00pm

June 27, 2018

Information Session, 3:30-4:30pm Renton Library June 28, 2018

Information Session, 10:30-11:30 am, Skyway Library July 6, 2018

Final day to ask questions August 6, 2018

RFP Responses Due August 8, 2018

Responses Reviewed and Rated August 28, 2018

Possible Interviews Week of August 28, 2018

Notice of Selected and Non-Selected Proposals September 12, 2018

Selected Proposals List Published Week of September 12

Contract Term October 1, 2018-

December 31, 2020

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

• MUST BE RECEIVED IN ZOOMGRANTS BY AUGUST 8 AT MIDNIGHT

• 3 year draft Budget

• Questions must be submitted through ZoomGrants

• Check for the weekly FAQ

FIND DATA!

Partnership Collaboration Accessibility

DATA & EVALUATION

WHAT’S THE STORY?

1. Identify your story. 2.Decide what information will make your

story convincing.

3.Find the information / data you need.

FINDING DATA TO TELL YOUR STORY

What are data?

Numbers:

Maps:

Stories:

Pictures:

“I liked the screening, because it helped me understand some of the milestones to look out for and there were activities

we could do together.”

DATA SOURCES

TELLING YOUR STORY

BSK Indicator Data

Communities Count

Your Data

TIPS We value different kinds of data

including stories! The data sources provided in the RFP are

meant to eliminate extra work on the applicant side—not to dictate the data sources you use or the case that you want to make.

Contact a TA provider if you would like additional support.

KING COUNTY DATA RESOURCES

Best Starts for Kids Indicators: www.kingcounty.gov/bskindicators

• Population-level data about what is happening in King County overall

• Information about issues related to BSK, often disaggregated by race/ethnicity, region, and more

• Find the topic you’re looking for using result area, indicator type, and search

DATA & EVALUATION

All programs will be required to participate in evaluation

efforts:

Build into budget

Share data to track project progress & outcomes

No evaluation plan is required with your proposal. If awarded,

BSK will partner with your organization to develop one.

Where possible, BSK will attempt to coordinate with other

existing data collection.

THINGS TO KNOW