2026-013 RFP Programs for Building Youth Resiliency

KITSAP COUNTY COMMISSION ON
CHILDREN AND YOUTH
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL
2026-012
Programs that Prevent and Reduce the Impact of Adverse
Childhood Experiences through Building Resiliency
June 1, 2026, through December 31, 2026
Proposal Deadline: Friday April 17, 2026 at 2:00 p.m.

KITSAP COUNTY COMMISSION ON
CHILDREN AND YOUTH
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL SUMMARY
Programs that Prevent and Reduce the Impact of Adverse Childhood
Experiences through Building Resiliency
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Request for Proposal Summary ................................................................... 3
I. GRANT CYCLE VIII............................................................................... 4
II. PURPOSE AND SCOPE OF PROJECT...................................................... 5
III. ANTICIPATED SCOPE OF WORK .......................................................... 6
IV. PROPOSAL SUBMISSION...................................................................... 8
V. REVIEW AND SELECTION CRITERIA ....................................................... 10
VI. PROPOSAL GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS.................................... 11
VII. CONTRACT GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS.................................... 13
VIII. SPECIAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS......................................................... 23
ATTACHMENTS:
* GRANT SUMMARY PAGE - ATTACHMENT A .................................. 26
* BUDGET - ATTACHMENT B ......................................................... 27
* DEFINITIONS - ATTACHMENT C ................................................... 29
* MINIMUM REVIEW SHEET - ATTACHMENT D................................. 31
* PROGRAM DESIGN REVIEW SHEET - ATTACHMENT E ................ 32
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KITSAP COUNTY COMMISSION ON CHILDREN AND YOUTH
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL SUMMARY
Programs that Prevent and Reduce the Impact of Adverse Childhood
Experiences through Building Resiliency
The Kitsap County Commission on Children and Youth is requesting proposals for public matching
dollars from Organizations and/or Youth Serving Agencies who are working to prevent and reduce
the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences through building resiliency in youth ages birth to
eighteen in Kitsap County. Proposals must be for projects or program services that are able to
document a 100% cash match in private funds. Private matching funds would include private
individual, civic group, non-profit organization, foundation or corporate donations, and fees or earned
income. Federal, tribal, state, or local government funds will not be accepted as matching funds. In-
kind donations will not be accepted as match. Up to $19,500 dollars will be awarded for projects or
program services delivered between June 1, 2026, and December 31, 2026.
Proposal Deadline: Thursday, April 17, 2026, at 2:00 p.m.
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are 10 experiences children may have during their first 24
years of life: physical, emotional, or sexual abuse; physical or emotional neglect; exposure to
traumatic stressors in the home (substance abuse, mental illness, domestic violence, incarceration of
a household member, parental separation, or divorce). ACEs researchers have made an especially
significant finding: the greater the number of ACEs, the greater the risk for an array of poor physical,
mental, and behavioral health outcomes for individuals throughout their lives.
Funding priorities for 2026: Examples of program services that reduce the impact of ACEs include,
but are not limited to:
* Youth leadership development: (e.g., training, mentorship, internships, project coordination)
* Education efforts focused on parents, childcare providers, preschool teachers, and youth
serving organizations to increase awareness of the adverse childhood experiences in early
childhood for lifelong outcomes in learning, behavior, and health.
* Development of creative, new strategies that can be incorporated into home-, school-, and center-
based services to reduce sources of adverse childhood experiences and to strengthen the
relationships that buffer children from the long-term consequences of significant adversity.
* Community based mentoring activities.
* Selected early-intervention programs, early childhood mental health services, and specialized
family therapies that have demonstrated evidence of positive impacts on vulnerable young
children and families.
* Professional development programs that educate key participants in the juvenile court and
foster care systems about the biology of adversity and its implications for case management,
child custody, and foster care of children who have been abused or neglected.
* Collaborative efforts with educators, youth services workers, mental health providers, and
other related professionals to address urgent needs as early as possible and to integrate
effective services for the most vulnerable children and their families.
* Strategies that address teen suicide and mental health.
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REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL PLANNING SCHEDULE 2026
DATE ACTIVITY
March 5, 2026 Kitsap County Commission on Children and
Youth meet and approve RFP.
March 13, 2026 Request for Proposal Released.
RFP Packet Available.
March 25, 2026 Bidder's Conference Will be held virtually. Please
11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. email Laura Hyde for an invitation
Lhyde@kitsap.gov
April 17, 2026 Proposals Received by the Kitsap County
2:00 p.m. deadline Commission on Children and Youth.
BID SUBMISSION DEADLINE & LOCATION:
To be considered as a responsive bidder,
submittals must be received by Kitsap County
staff April 17, 2026, at 2:00p.m.
Submit SOQ packet to: Purchasing@kitsap.gov
April 21, 2026 Staff technical review and proposals sent to
Grant Review Committee.
April 22, 2026 Kitsap Cares About Kids Grant Review
Committee Members receive and rank proposals.
April 30, 2026 Grant Review Committee meets and develops
recommendations for funding.
May 7, 2026 Kitsap County Commission on Children & Youth
meets to select proposals for funding.
May 18, 2026 Awards announced and contracts initiated.
June 1, 2026 Matching funds available for selected youth
projects or program services between June 1,
2026, and December 31, 2026.
December 31, 2026 Matching funds must be spent.
January 7, 2027 Awardees report to the Youth Commission at the
January 2027 monthly meeting.
January 15, 2027 Final written report due
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II. PURPOSE AND SCOPE OF PROJECT
The Commission on Children and Youth is an appointed body of the Kitsap County Board of
Commissioners, with up to 20 representatives from education and schools, health and social
service providers, juvenile justice and law enforcement, community leaders and non-profit
organizations. Established in 1988, the Youth Commission's charge is to:
* Advise County Commissioners and residents on the needs of children, youth and
families based on periodic assessments.
* Facilitate coordination of information among agencies to maximize resources; and to
* Advocate for an environment that fosters healthy, self-sufficient, responsible, and
productive children, youth, and families.
In 2000, The Commission on Children and Youth launched their Developmental Asset
Initiative, which is dedicated to envisioning a community where all young people know they
are valued, have hope for the future, and possess the resources to achieve their goals. This
initiative is based on the Search Institute's developmental asset model of positive youth
development. Search Institute's research using 200,000 youth subjects indicates that assets
help protect youth from risk taking behavior including the use of alcohol, tobacco, marijuana,
and other drugs, as well as reducing antisocial behavior and youth violence. The more
assets a young person has, the more likely they are to do well in school and have a positive
outlook on their future. Over 15,000 individuals in Kitsap County have been trained in asset
building.
In 2013, the Commission on Children and Youth launched the Kitsap Adverse Childhood
Experience (ACEs) Partnership in collaboration with Kitsap Community Health Priorities. The
mission of the Partnership is to come together to build and strengthen a resilient and
compassionate community. Their goals are to expand the partnership and build community
infrastructure to support resiliency; educate the community on ACEs, assets, and building
resiliency including service providers, professionals, and the community at large; and create
a resources bank with online access.
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are 10 experiences children may have during their
first 18 years of life: physical, emotional, or sexual abuse; physical or emotional neglect;
exposure to traumatic stressors in the home (substance abuse, mental illness, domestic
violence, incarceration of a household member, parental separation or divorce). ACEs
researchers have made an especially significant finding: the greater the number of ACEs, the
greater the risk for an array of poor physical, mental, and behavioral health outcomes for
individuals throughout their lives. In scientific terms, there is a direct "dose-response"
relationship between ACEs and serious health issues.
The counterbalance of ACEs is Resiliency-the ability of an individual to withstand and
rebound from stress, the ability of the tree to bend and bounce back from traumatic injury,
despite the intensity of the wind. Developmental Assets increase an individual's ability to
experience resiliency. Research indicates that the more assets young people have, the less
likely they are to engage in risky behaviors and the more likely they are to thrive and
experience academic success.
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The Commission on Children and Youth's funding priorities for year 2026 will focus on
programs that prevent and reduce the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences through
building resiliency. Matching public funds for these youth projects or program services are
available through local county general funds. These funds are intended to be used to match
private individual, non-profit organization, civic group, foundation or corporate donations and
fees or earned income made to the organization within the last year of the Request for
Proposal due date. Examples of private funds allowable for match include, but are not limited
to:
* Individual donations of cash to the organization.
* Donations from civic groups like Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions.
* Grant awards from foundations like the Kitsap Community Foundation, Paul Allen
Foundation, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
* Grant awards from non-profit organizations like the United Way.
* Grant awards from private corporations like Starbucks, Boeing, Fred Meyer.
* Fees collected for projects or program services or earned income. This would not
include fees that were paid by federal, state, local government tax dollars.
III. ANTICIPATED SCOPE OF WORK
Program services that build and expand on existing efforts to prevent and reduce the impact
of Adverse Childhood Experiences through building resiliency have been identified as the
priority for this funding period. Examples of programs include, but are not limited to:
* Education efforts focused on parents, childcare providers, preschool teachers and
youth serving organizations to increase awareness of the adverse consequences of
adverse childhood experiences in early childhood for lifelong outcomes in learning,
behavior, and health.
* Development of creative, new strategies that can be incorporated into home-, school-,
and center-based services to reduce sources of adverse childhood experiences and to
strengthen the relationships that buffer children from the long-term consequences of
significant adversity;
* Community based mentoring activities.
* Selected early-intervention programs, early childhood mental health services, and
specialized family therapies that have demonstrated evidence of positive impacts on
vulnerable young children and families.
* Professional development programs that educate key participants in the juvenile court
and foster care systems about the biology of adversity and its implications for case
management, child custody, and foster care of children who have been abused or
neglected.
* Collaborative efforts with educators, youth services workers, mental health providers,
and other related professionals to address urgent needs as early as possible and to
integrate effective services for the most vulnerable children and their families.
Elements targeted for funding include, but are not limited to:
* Staff training that improves services provided to children, youth, and families.
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* Curriculum.
* Service-learning projects.
* Civic engagement projects.
* Youth leadership training.
* Teen and/or adult parent education, involvement, and attachment activities.
* School bonding, belonging and achievement activities.
* Alcohol and other drug prevention strategies training.
* Counseling and mental health programs for youth.
* Early childhood and school readiness programs.
* Promotion of competencies, coping skills and general life skill building.
* Opportunities to learn and develop talents.
* Child abuse prevention programs.
* Positive behavior support.
* Self-regulation skills development.
* Youth health and wellness promotion
* Teen suicide prevention and mental health
Matching funds are designed to improve the quality of Kitsap County positive youth
development programs, as well as expand and improve existing programs. Priority will be
given to proposals that are collaborative efforts and involve more than one organization in the
project delivery. Priority will also be given to proposals that involve youth in the planning,
implementation, and delivery of services. New projects or program services must show
evidence of sustainability beyond the funding period.
IV. PROPOSAL SUBMISSION
All responses to this Request for Proposals (RFP) must be complete and meet the following
minimum technical requirements to be further reviewed for program design elements.
All proposals shall be submitted electronically as one attachment.
Proposals Received by the Kitsap County Commission on Children and Youth.
BID SUBMISSION DEADLINE & LOCATION:
To be considered as a responsive bidder, submittals must be received by Kitsap County staff
April 17, 2026, at 2:00p.m.
Submit SOQ packet to: Purchasing@kitsap.gov
Applications must be received by 2:00 p.m., Friday, April 17, 2026.
Your application must be received by the application deadline, or it will not be considered
for review
All responses to this Request for Proposals (RFP) must be complete and meet the following
minimum technical requirements to be further reviewed for program design elements.
All proposals shall be submitted electronically
Applications must be received by 2:00 p.m., Friday, April 17, 2026.
Your application must be received by the application deadline or it will not be
considered for review
The proposals will be screened and rated based on the following Narrative and the
items listed in the Grant Proposal Checklist, using the Minimum Review Sheet
(Attachment D), and the Program Design Review Sheet (Attachment E).
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A. Narrative
Limit your response to the following items to no more than four pages, not including
the required grant summary page.
1. Applicant Organizational Background
Include organizational mission statement and purpose, organizational qualifications,
history of accomplishments, governance, area, and population served, role of
volunteers. If this is a collaboration, describe the lead agency and its relation to others
involved.
2. Needs and Strengths
Identify the needs and strengths of the community or groups you serve and how this
proposal will address them. Acknowledge similar existing projects or agencies, if any,
and explain how your agency or proposal differs, and what effort will be made to work
cooperatively.
3. Project Description
a. What is your organization currently doing to prevent and reduce the impact of
ACEs through building resiliency within the population you work with?
b. Identify your expansion plan on current efforts to prevent and reduce the impact
of ACEs through building resiliency within the population you work with.
c. Project goals, measurable objectives, timeline, and anticipated impact. Please
describe how you will measure pre- and post-data on the effectiveness of
specific ACEs/resiliency intervention(s) on children-youth.
d. Partners involved in the project. Roles and responsibilities of each partner.
e. What your organization is doing to build and maintain cultural competency of
the staff, volunteers, and youth.
f. Expected role of staff, volunteers, and youth.
g. Number and types of people who will benefit from your proposal.
h. How will you monitor your work and how will you measure success or
effectiveness?
i. Identify the source, amount, and date of receipt of your 100% private matching
dollars. Provide a letter of commitment or documentation from the private
donor specifying the use of the 100% matching funds for your proposal. What
are your other potential and actual sources of support for this proposal? Where
do you expect to find future support?
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4. Additional Information
Please address anything else about your organization or project you think is relevant
to this proposal.
B. Grant Proposal Checklist
(Note: only one copy of the most recent audited financial statement needs to be
included.)
1. Grant Summary Page - Attachment A
2. Four-page narrative detailing how funds will be used to prevent and reduce
the impact of ACEs through building resiliency among children and youth. In the
narrative, please address how your agency will promote cultural competence in
working with youth and children who may have different cultural values and
languages as well as LGBTQ children and youth.
3. Letter of commitment or documentation from the private donor specifying the
use of the 100% matching funds for your proposal.
4. Using Attachment B - Line-Item Budget Detail, identify the budget categories
for the private funds that will be used for this project and the public matching
dollars requested.
5. Provide an organizational chart and explain the relationship of your agency to
any parent or sponsoring agency.
6. List of key organizational staff, including titles and main functions.
7. Describe your basic managerial and fiscal structure including program
management, accounting, internal controls, program monitoring and evaluation,
and any outside contractors to be utilized in the administration of the program.
8. A one-page summary of actual operating revenue and expenses for the
past two complete fiscal years, including a listing of funding sources and
amounts received over the past two years. (Group sources in broad categories;
please do not include individual donor names or amount of donations.)
Programs who have not provided services for at least two years may request an
exemption.
9. If the project for which you are seeking funds is a collaboration with other
agencies, include letters of commitment or other documentation of support
from the collaborating agencies.
10. Summarize the results of your Agency's last audit. Include description of
any disallowed costs, questioned costs and administrative findings. The
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Commission may request a complete copy of the Audit Report prior to contract
award.
V. REVIEW AND SELECTION CRITERIA
The proposals must meet the minimum technical requirements in Section IV. to be further
reviewed for program design elements. Proposals will then be rated for program design
based on responses to Section IV. of the Request for Proposal. Each of the criteria has
equal weight. In addition, proposals will be evaluated for cost/price feasibility and cost-
benefit to the community. The price will be judged based on a comparison of prices among
competing proposals. Price will also be compared to past prices offered by similar services.
All proposers will be notified in writing of the acceptance or rejection of their proposals. If a
proposal is not selected for funding, the organization may resubmit an updated proposal at
the next grant cycle. Organizations that have been selected for funding during a grant cycle
may reapply for funding during the next cycle.
VI. PROPOSAL GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS
A. Authorship
Proposals developed with the assistance of organizations or individuals outside the
bidder's own organization should be identified. No contingent fees for such assistance
will be allowed to be paid under any contract or grant resulting from this RFP. All
proposals submitted become the property of the Youth Commission, and it is
understood and agreed that the bidder claims no proprietary rights to the ideas
contained therein.
B. Independent Price Determination
The proposer guarantees that in connection with this proposal the prices and/or cost
data have been arrived at independently, without consultation, communication, or
agreement for the purpose of restricting competition.
C. Subcontracting
Proposers must include any plans for subcontracting of services or activities of the
programs. It is understood that the contractor(s) is held responsible for the
satisfactory accomplishment of the service or activities included in such subcontract.
The Youth Commission reserves the right to approve all subcontractors.
D. Rejection of Proposal
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