Behavioral Health and Recovery Services Transformation Academy Design

In 2025 the County of San Mateo, through its Behavioral Health and Recovery Services (BHRS) division, developed its Transformation Journey Five-Year Roadmap . This Roadmap identified strategies to align BHRS's operations and workforce with the Behavioral Health Services Act (BHSA) programmatic requirements. A crucial part of that journey includes BHRS championing a spirit of learning, curiosity, healing, growth, and continuous improvement amongst its workforce. To identify BHRS training needs and skill gaps, an internal organizational capacity assessment was conducted, and an initial framework for the design of a Transformation Academy. To continue this work into its final design phase, BHRS has released this Request for Proposals (RFP) to solicit services from a professional consultant that specializes in facilitating the developing workforce training plans, specific to BHRS's Transformation Academy needs. Training is to be primarily focused on addressing skill gaps for BHRS staff to support its transformation journey, such as leadership, change management, leveraging data for improvement, contract monitoring, and project management. Ideal proposals will demonstrate a clear understanding of Prop. 1/Behavioral Health Services Act (BHSA), behavioral health workforce training needs, and the County's Behavioral Health Transformation Journey objectives. Proposers must include a clear schedule for meeting milestones for the finalization of the design and implementation of the workforce training academy, costs associated with each achieved milestone, and the estimated date for each deliverable within the span of the 18-month term. Additional information on the milestones will be found in the Scope of Work section. Please note: any bids submitted with a total budget surpassing $85,000 during the 18-month term will not be considered.