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About this opportunity
Best Starts is seeking to partner with healthcare service providers to implement additional school-based health centers (SBHC) at school locations across King County! Students succeed when they can routinely access safe, nurturing spaces and build relationships to help address the range of mental, behavioral and other medical challenges they are facing. Best Starts partners with schools, families, and communities to invest in school-based health centers, student-focused health centers at schools across King County, to advance educational equity, close opportunity gaps, and support the goals of young students.
Investing in the well-being and health of students through providing direct comprehensive medical, mental health, and other healthcare services promotes learning, school attendance, and strong relationships. SBHC investments will provide direct student support services, with a particular focus on historically under resourced populations (e.g. BIPOC, low income, LGBTQ+).
Eligibility:
To be eligible under this RFA, interested organizations must:
- Be a public or nonprofit private entity, including Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC), hospital system, or other community-based primary care provider organizations.
- Provide or subcontract the full scope of accessible, comprehensive medical and mental health services for its patients.
- Have at least one primary care services delivery site within King County.
- Have a proven track record (a minimum of three years) of providing medical and mental health services to low-income, underserved, or vulnerable King County residents.
- Demonstrate in the RFA their ability to meet all the necessary scope of services listed below.
Available funding:
Through this RFA, Best Starts expects to invest in two new SBHCs.
Definitions: Operation funds can be used for staffing, supplies and other SBHC operational needs. Capital funds can be used for SBHC facilities, construction, and related costs.
Operation funds from this RFA will be awarded to a healthcare provider organization to provide medical, mental health, and healthcare access services for students at one or more King County schools, beginning in the fall of school year 2022-2023. The projected annual funding available per site is up to $357,000. A total of $350,000 is also available for one-time Capital building improvement.
Applicants must submit a separate application for each school they are applying to serve.
To learn more about the details of this funding opportunity, read the RFA document on the ZoomGrants webpage – click on link at the top of the page to access the ZoomGrants webpage.
Have any questions? Attend our information session
We strongly encourage anyone interested in applying to attend our information session to ask questions and learn more.
- March 30 at 10:00 am – we will add registration details here soon.
Timeline
| Request for Application Released | March 16, 2022 |
| Information Session | March 30, 10 am |
| Final day to submit questions via ZoomGrants | April 18 |
| Proposals due | April 26 by 2 pm |
| Responses reviewed | May |
| Notification of selected and non-selected applicants | June |
| Anticipated program/contract start date | September, 2022 |
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