With funding from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the On-site Sewage System Operation & Maintenance (OSS O&M) program of Public Health-Seattle & King County’s (PHSKC) Environmental Health Services (EHS) Division is requesting proposals to develop education and outreach materials and conduct campaigns to raise youth and family awareness and promote actions for reduced pet waste, wildlife feeding, septic system maintenance, and/or side sewer maintenance in Poverty Bay Shellfish Protection District (SPD).
Donor Name: Public Health – Seattle & King County (PHSKC)
State: Washington
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/21/2024
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The main audience of this project is youths and families with limited English proficiency (LEP), historically marginalized communities, low-income residents, and/or communities with diverse cultural backgrounds. Through a series of educational and outreach campaigns, the focused audience should be provided with opportunities to understand the impact of fecal pollution on the health of a community and the natural environment. A holistic approach should be devised to bring youth and families of color or with LEP into the awareness of environmental justice, create viable solutions that community members can implement in their day-to-day life activities, and assess the effectiveness of the project.
The selected contractor will complete the following three tasks in collaboration with EHS staff:
- Develop educational materials to elevate youth and families’ awareness of reduced fecal pollution, clean water, water quality, environmental justice, or related issues around Poverty Bay based on community’s needs.
- Distribute and present the developed materials at 1-3 events through various formats, including but not limited to presentation, discussion, poster session, community resource event, or other creative ways to present the work.
- Assess the impact of the event(s) with participants and attendees in the targeted community to understand how best to continue to develop and deliver the message on clean water.
Funding Information
Total budget of $20,000.00 is available for the contractual work and $5,000.00 is available for supplies, which PHSKC directly purchases the materials and provides them to the selected contractor.
Types of Projects
- ELEMENT 1: Develop educational materials
- The selected contractor will analyze community survey results to develop educational materials to increase knowledge and elicit behaviors to reduce fecal pollution. The contractor will work closely with community youth and families to develop educational materials, messages, or campaign actions about topics of reduced fecal pollution, clean water, environmental justice, or water quality in Poverty Bay Shellfish Protection District. Contractor will determine the most driving factors of fecal pollution in the community and develop messaging. Contractor will devise educational materials to broaden and deepen the understanding of the messages within the impacted community. PHSKC will support with any resources or information that is related to the message.
- ELEMENT 2: Distribute and present the developed materials at 1-3 events through various formats.
- The selected contractor will plan and present the developed materials at 1-3 local events in either in-person or virtual formats. Contractor will involve material developers and broader community members that have not been exposed to such environmental initiatives or campaigns in the past. The event(s) will include final educational material that’s developed, development processes, or any other effective methods to bring communities into the campaign action. The final products of the projects should later be analyzed by the success metrics in changes of knowledge or behaviors in the matter of fecal pollution reduction.
- ELEMENT 3: Assess the impact of the event(s) with participants and attendees in the targeted community.
- During or after the event(s), contractor will conduct an assessment to measure the success of the project to elevate the understanding of targeted environmental topic (e.g., fecal pollution in water). The measurement will be compared to the pre-event measurement to gauge the improvement of the environmental awareness of the community. The survey can be in various forms, including qualitative or quantitative methods. One final report of the project will include the results of the pre- and post-event success measurement and other findings (e.g., recommendations).
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