Attachment 1-Support Letter.pdf
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This is a letter from Washington State Representative Chris Corry to the HCA Contract Division and Sole Source Procurements Team requesting approval of a $200,000 sole source contract for Chad's Legacy Project (CLP). The letter describes CLP's past work leading the Washington State Mental Health Summit series, supporting peer workforce development, providing Mental Health First Aid training in rural areas, and developing an online mental health curriculum library. The organization is also slated to co-lead an HCA legislative workgroup on Mental Health Advance Directives related to bill 2SSB 5660.
The funding request was unanimously passed in House Appropriations and incorporated into the State's operating budget. The letter emphasizes that CLP has been operating without state funding support and argues that the organization is uniquely positioned to accomplish the specified projects, noting that the budget language directly references CLP's mission statement. Representative Corry requests that the funds be made available to CLP as soon as possible through a sole source contract to support their ongoing and planned mental health initiatives in Washington State.
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| K8011_Sole Source Justification_final.pdf | ||
| K8011-CLP_Public Notice_final.pdf | ||
| K8011-Chads Legacy Project_final.pdf |
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To: HCA Contract Division and Sole Source Procurements Team c/c Dakota Steel, Office of Community Voices and Empowerment, HCA
I am writing today to express my intent during this past 2024 legislative session regarding one specific Operating Budget request I authored and was subsequently unanimously passed in House Appropriations and adopted into the State’s operating budget. The budget language associated with this $200,000 budget request was drafted with the sole intent of acknowledging the work Chad’s Legacy Project has been doing for the past seven years.
Still, more importantly, the critical work planned for the coming 12 months.
Chad’s Legacy Project (CLP) has accomplished much, including the inception and leadership of the continuing Washington State Mental Health Summit series, support programs to help build the Washington Peer workforce and Mental Health First Aid training capacity in rural areas. CLP is also slated to co-lead an HCA legislative implementation workgroup passed in the 2024 session associated with the overwhelmingly supported 2SSB 5660 in the coming months in the area of Mental Health Advance Directives. In addition, CLP stands poised to nationally transform how teachers locate, assess and implement Mental Health education though a planned expansion project for their groundbreaking online curriculum library, www.mentalhealthinstruction.org.
All of these efforts have been without, and even in lieu of, state funding support. It is time for the State of Washington to invest in CLP and enable them to sustainably champion and execute tasks that are now waiting in the starting blocks. The referenced state budget request signed by the Governor was drafted referencing specific projects only CLP has the capability of accomplishing, and you’ll note the mission statement referenced in budget language is merely a copy and paste of the Mission Statement posted on the CLP website. On behalf of CLP, I and my House Appropriations cohort request this budget item be created as a Sole Source contract for Chad’s Legacy Project and funds made available to them as soon as feasibly possible.
Thank you for your consideration. I have full confidence in the work of Chad’s Legacy Project to further improve mental health services and education here in Washington State.
Sincerely, Chris Corry https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mentalhealthinstruction.org%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cchris.corry%40leg.wa.gov%7C917f6bf3356642dbd8c608dcc8550844%7C848b0e6c94894d83b31e4fde99732b09%7C0%7C0%7C638605514759221734%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=LebDJif3nGpYf%2FyOuoClFiZHvNgAJXZdXFZ8DycTCn8%3D&reserved=0
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