Best Starts for Kids is excited to announce our three community partners who received Basic Needs Resource Brokering Funding. Congratulations to the Tilth Alliance, WestSide Baby and Eastside Baby Corner. In total, Best Starts awarded $961,000 to help meet basic needs in King County. Read on to learn more about the good work Best Starts is supporting through these partnerships!
For those interested in applying to the Evaluation Strategies RFP but were unable to join us for our live webinar, you can view the recorded webinar here.
For those interested in the Community-Designed Home-Based Services RFP, but were unable to join an online or in person info session, the recorded online info session is now available here.
Communities of Opportunity is seeking a consultant to facilitate the co-design process to develop a Systems and Policy Agenda with community organizations. The agenda will create a set of priorities that will inform Communities of Opportunity funding and guide other systems and policy change work within the initiative. The consultant will work with the 50+ organizations that…
Best Starts is now accepting applications for community-designed programs and practices for prenatal to five home-based services. Home-Based Services are a type of relationship-based support provided to expecting parents, and parents of children birth to age 5, in the places where they live. This RFP prioritizes community-based expertise—such as experience, knowledge, and local client data—and seeks to invest in prenatal-to-5 home-based services that are specifically designed for a focus community. Applications are due May 21.
Best Starts for Kids is hiring two positions to join our Prenatal to 5 team. Both positions sit within the Developmental Disabilities Division in the Department of Community and Human Services and will be part of the Best Starts for Kids implementation effort working in alignment with staff from DCHS and Public Health – Seattle & King…
The RFP to conduct evaluation for selected Best Starts for Kids programs and strategies is now available. The selected evaluators will identify a study design to answer evaluation questions of respective program and strategy within allocated funding. Click here to view the request for proposals and apply. This link will take you a ZoomGrants page.…
Communities of Opportunity (COO) is expanding efforts to help neighborhoods and cultural communities build partnerships that contribute to better health, safe and affordable housing, economic opportunity and stronger community connections for residents. COO will provide $3.1 million to six efforts that tap into the collaborative power of residents to improve health and well-being. In King…
For those interested in applying to the RFP for Capacity-Building for Prenatal to Five Home-Based Services and Community-Based Services, you can now view the recorded info session here.
For those interested in applying to our RFP for an Infant/Early-Childhood & Family Mental Health (IECFMH) Landscape Analysis and Strategic Plan for King County, you can now view the recorded info session here.
Best Starts for Kids is seeking proposals from individual organizations, or collaborations among organizations, to provide capacity-building supports to service providers that are, or will be, funded by Best Starts to provide the following services to young children and their families across King County: Home-Based Services and Community-Based Services. Applications are due April 24.
