Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 5187 provided funding to OSPI for fiscal years 2024 and 2025 to provide statewide professional development and technical assistance to school districts and to provide a limited number of grants for demonstration projects. The demonstration projects must build school-level and district-level systems that eliminate student isolation, track and reduce restraint use, and build schoolwide systems to support students in distress and prevent crisis escalation cycles that may result in restraint or isolation. The schoolwide systems must include trauma-informed positive behavior and intervention supports, de-escalation, and problem-solving skills. The proposed contract satisfies the legislative requirement by providing statewide professional development to school districts using an evidence-based and traumainformed training neurodiversity affirming model of care that helps caregivers focus on identifying the problems that are causing concerning behaviors in kids and solving those problems collaboratively and proactively Please note: This is a Sole Source Notification.