Designed to secure a qualified Technical Assistance and Evaluation Contractor to support the successful implementation and evaluation of California's Peer Respite Pilot Projects. This investment aims to scale the peer respite model into a cohesive, sustainable, and evidence-based component of California's behavioral health landscape, strengthening community-based stabilization, advancing fiscal viability for grantees, and building the data and evidence needed to support peer respite as a replicable, statewide crisis care strategy.