Comprehensive Supports for Early Learning

Summary
The Department of Education and Early Learning (DEEL) is notifying organizations, consultants, specialists, and any other entities providing services described in the this RFQ of a funding opportunity through the City of Seattle 2018 Families, Education, Preschool and Promise (FEPP) Levy.

The FEPP Levy aims to achieve educational equity, close opportunity gaps, and build a better economic future for Seattle students.

The Seattle Preschool Program (SPP) launched in the 2015-16 school year with the goal of providing accessible, high-quality preschool services for Seattle children designed to improve their readiness for school and to support their subsequent academic achievement. Around the same time, DEEL also created the Pathway program with the mission to support providers transitioning to SPP by providing additional supports needed to meet SPP quality standards.  

Purpose
The purpose of the Comprehensive Supports RFQ is to solicit applications to identify qualified organizations and individuals to provide time-limited, teacher-focused, classroom-level services to early learning providers participating in SPP and SPP Pathway. Identified organizations and individuals will work with preschool teachers who need additional and intensive coaching and/or support and have already utilized their agency's resources, DEEL's coaches, and Public Health Seattle King County's (PHSKC) mental health consultants. These services are intended to build the capacity and skills of preschool teachers working with a small number of children not on an Individualized Education Plan (IEP), but who need intensive strategies inclusive of, but not limited to, behavioral, developmental, and/or connected to family/childhood trauma. DEEL has approximately $400,000 available for 2020 to contract with selected applicants from this RFQ. Services will begin in 2020. DEEL reserves the right to re-release this RFQ throughout the FEPP Levy period. Executed contracts will have evaluation and performance expectations. 

REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATION TIMELINE