New VSHSL funding opportunity: Veteran Provider Training Supports (SS 5)
A new funding opportunity is available from the Veterans, Seniors, and Human Services Levy (VSHSL) to provide trainings and cultural competency to the veteran-serving community on key issues that affect veterans, military servicemembers, and their respective families or that strengthen the ability of entities to be inclusive and welcoming of veterans, servicemembers, and their respective families.
Effectively serving veterans requires specialized understanding of veteran culture, military norms, and a host of circumstances, conditions, and systems that are specific to veterans, servicemembers, and their respective families. Many VSHSL-funded providers are of insufficient size or scale to affordably host or pursue expert trainings without additional resources.
Funding overview
Funded entities will provide trainings on topics to be determined by DCHS to the military and veteran provider community. The goal of such trainings is to enable providers to serve veterans, military servicemembers, and their respective families more effectively.
This funding opportunity will prioritize funding entities that have a demonstrated history of veteran cultural competency and can prioritize providing trainings to organizations in King County that serve veterans, servicemembers, and their families. The focus of such trainings should be related to culturally relevant service provision, knowledge of veteran resources in the community, and common issues specific to the veteran community that providers may encounter.
Awarded entities will develop and/or provide access to a range of training and professional development opportunities to community members, employers, and veterans themselves, with trainings to be centered on the veteran experience. Trainings may focus on issues of motivational interviewing, trauma, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and their impacts or other areas of knowledge identified by participants to be of value to help them better serve the veterans with whom they interact.
Application details
Available funding: Up to $1,006,043 in Veterans, Seniors, and Human Services Levy funds
Investment period: September 1, 2024 – December 31, 2026 (subject to change)
Questions: Contact Evan Brennan at ebrennan@kingcounty.gov or 206-477-8504
Applications due: June 4, 2024 by 2:00pm Pacific Time
Join the information session to learn more
A virtual information session to discuss questions related to this RFP will be held on May 8, 2024, 12:00 – 1:00pm.
Join by Zoom:
https://kingcounty.zoom.us/j/89039260563
The information session will be recorded and posted at https://zoomgrants.com/zgf/VSHSL_Veteran_Provider_Training_Supports.
This will be a remote session with speech to text captioning provided. For accommodations to participate, please contact Evan Brennan by May 3, 2024.
About the VSHSL
The Veterans, Seniors, and Human Services Levy (VSHSL), administered by the King County Department of Community and Human Services Adult Services Division, promotes healthy living, financial stability, social engagement, housing stability and service system access for veterans, seniors, and resilient communities.