The City of Tacoma is soliciting proposals for its 2025-2026 Neighborhood and Community Services Grant Program.
Donor Name: City of Tacoma
State: Washington
City: Tacoma
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/02/2024
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
The City is seeking a wide variety of groups to apply for 2025-2026 service contracts, including agencies and organizations that support youth, seniors, people experiencing homelessness, and much more. There are eight service categories that the City is prioritizing for the 2025-2026 funding cycle:
Housing Services and Interventions
- Increase access to permanent, stable housing in order to end the cycle of homelessness.
- NCS will give priority consideration for applications that address one or more of the following:
- Address racial disparities through tailored service delivery
- Collaborative service delivery to holistically transition individuals experiencing homelessness to housing
- Provide a comprehensive range of supportive services that facilitates housing stability for the following populations at 60% Area Median Income (AMI):
- Persons who are homeless or at-risk of being homeless, including families with children
- Unaccompanied homeless youth or young adults
- Persons with disabilities, including behavioral health disabilities
- Veterans
- Senior citizens
- Domestic violence survivors
- Services under this department priority may include but are not limited to:
- Resources for households facing housing crises
- Integration of culturally competent and trauma-informed practices into programs
- Expanded services aimed at enhancing life skills and maintaining adequate housing with an emphasis on addressing racial disparities through increased housing stability for marginalized communities
Encampment Response
- Increase access to resources through outreach and address public health and safety concerns.
- NCS will give priority consideration for applications that address one or more of the following:
- Address racial disparities through tailored service delivery
- Collaborative service delivery
- Trauma-informed, culturally competent service delivery
- Hours of services include weekends, evenings, and nontraditional working hours
- Services under this department priority may include but are not limited to:
- Navigation services that improve access for individuals to access shelter, housing, and/or healthcare services
- Outreach to people who are living in inhabitable spaces
- Immediate support to individuals in encampments
- Long-term solutions that will support individuals towards shelter alternatives and/or directly into stable housing options
Domestic Violence Reduction and Prevention
- Increase best practices and data-informed strategies, that are culturally relevant, to reduce and prevent family and intimate partner violence.
- NCS will give priority consideration for applications that address one or more of the following:
- Address racial disparities through tailored service delivery
- Provide services that reduce family and intimate partner violence
- Provide trauma-informed, healing-centered services to the whole family
- Provide best practices and/or data driven strategies in service delivery model
- Services under this department priority may include but are not limited to:
- Services that increase access to resources, promote resiliency, and are culturally relevant
- Prevention and intervention services for the individual and family
- Licensed Mental and/or Behavioral Health Services, Certified Peer Counselor, or accreditation appropriate for the level of services being offered
- Support groups, classes, innovative practices that promote healing
Building Resilience Against Violence and Exploitation (BRAVE)
- Reduce the likelihood at-risk youth will become involved in criminal activity and violent crime. Utilize prevention, intervention, suppression, and collaboration efforts to foster safe neighborhoods and encourage community leadership.
- NCS will give priority consideration for applications that address one or more of the following:
- Address racial disparities through tailored service delivery.
- Focus on the Hilltop, Eastside, West of the Mall, and Hosmer communities, addressing the target age group of 30 years of age and younger
- Offer culturally responsive services for those under 30 years of age most effected by violence: Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) young men, girls/women, justice-connected youth, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and more (LGBTQ+) youth
- Provide data-informed strategies in service delivery model
- Demonstrate collaboration among community-based organizations
- Conduct street outreach, when applicable
- Demonstrate year-round program delivery, especially outside of school hours
- Provide individual service plans, goal setting and case management services
- Services under this department priority may include but are not limited to:
- Positive youth development opportunities that include one or more of the following: family engagement, education supportive services, financial literacy, mentorship, social and emotional learning opportunities, economic empowerment
- Crisis intervention services (i.e., Licensed Mental/Behaviors Health and Substance Use Disorder services, or accreditation appropriate for service delivery, Peer Certified Counseling supports, small groups, innovative healing centered programs)
- Early intervention for Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder
- Navigation of basic need resources that remove barriers
- Innovative programs that promote protective factors and reduce risk factors
- Mental and behavioral health training
Health and Health Care
- Improve health outcomes and equitable access to healthcare for all Tacoma residents.
- NCS will give priority consideration for applications that address one or more of the following:
- Address racial disparities through tailored service delivery
- Increase equitable access to health care for historically marginalized populations (i.e., BIPOC, LGBTQ+) by utilizing collaborative/coordinated services and system navigation
- Active engagement in community outreach when applicable
- Services that increase access to resources, promote health outcomes, and are culturally relevant
- Services under this department priority may include but are not limited to:
- Behavioral and/or mental health prevention, intervention, and treatment services
- Substance use disorder prevention, intervention, and treatment services
- Licensed Mental and/or Behavioral Health Services, Certified Peer Counselor, or accreditation appropriate for the level of services being offered
- Prenatal, maternal, and infant supports
- Transportation resources
- Navigation of supplemental resources for uninsured, underinsured, and undocumented individuals
- Mental and behavioral health training
Equitable Food Access
- Increase access to nutritious meals and food options for all Tacoma residents.
- NCS will give priority consideration for applications that address one or more of the following:
- Address racial disparities through tailored service delivery
- Promote equitable access across all socio-economic demographics
- Active engagement in community outreach
- Services under this department priority may include but are not limited to:
- Delivery of nutritious and culturally relevant food
- Food education (i.e., food safety, nutrition, grocery budgeting and meal planning, etc.)
- Distribution of meals and essential products
- Mobile and stationary food banks and food pantries
Complementary Services
- Provide individuals and families access to a continuum of tailored supports to prevent and end homelessness.
- NCS will give priority consideration for applications that address one or more of the following: –
- Address racial disparities through tailored service delivery
- Improve access and collaboration to resources and/or enhancements to Tacoma’s systems and services
- Services under this department priority may include but are not limited to:
- Navigation services that improve access for individuals to access shelter, housing, and/or healthcare services
- Legal services
- Workforce development programs
- Detox facilities and mental health, behavioral health, or substance-use treatment services
Funding Information
- $8,000,000 to be split among various projects.
- The anticipated duration of the contract is up to a two-year period.
Eligibility Criteria
Respondents must demonstrate:
- Experience with the population requesting to serve
- Experience working in and with ethnically and culturally diverse communities
- Experience with data collection and reporting systems
- Knowledge of human services issues in the City of Tacoma
Agency and/or fiscal agent must have:
- Washington State and City of Tacoma business license
- Been in business a minimum of two years
- Proven evidence-based best practices in programming
For more information, visit City of Tacoma.
