A Year in Review
We’re excited to share A Year in Review (leer en español) that shows the impact of Best Starts funding through highlights drawn from the 2023 Best Starts for Kids Annual Report.
In 2023, Best Starts partnered with 336 community-based organizations operating 591 programs to reach over 221,000 children, young people, families, and community members across King County.
Best Starts invests in eight areas, including Child Care, Investing Early, Sustain the Gain, Youth and Family Homelessness Prevention Initiative, Communities of Opportunity, Capital Projects, Technical Assistance and Capacity Building, and Data and Evaluation. Across these investment areas, five key themes shaped Best Starts programming and results in 2023:
- Meeting Families’ Needs to support families in feeling safe and stable.
- Prioritizing Well-being and Mental Health to support the family unit and the whole community.
- Cultivating Opportunities for Children and Young People to support their goals in education and employment.
- Strengthening the Workforce to support a sustainable, robust, skilled, and well-compensated workforce to meet the needs of babies, children, and families.
- Building Community Power and Capacity to support equitable systems change and organizational infrastructure.
Check out the 2023 Data Dashboard!
The Best Starts for Kids 2023 Data Dashboard provides additional measures for Best Starts for Kids programs, customizable data views, and greater geographic and financial detail organized by section and investment area. Readers can navigate by clicking the gray navigation bar at the top of the dashboard. In many sections, readers can select specific strategies, programs, or topics of interest via a dropdown menu beneath the list of investment areas.
The Best Starts for Kids Dashboard includes the following sections:
Who do we serve? Provides information on communities served by race, gender, and age, organized by program, strategy, and investment area.
What are our results? Provides information on the quantity, quality, and impact of Best Starts, organized by strategies and programs within each investment area.
What are we learning? Provides thematic information from community partners about successes, challenges, changes, and impact stories, organized by investment area.
Where do we reach? Provides information on Best Starts’ reach geographically within King County, organized by investment areas that enroll individual participants.
How do we support communities? Provides information on how Best Starts invests in policy, systems, environment, and organizational change.
What do we invest in? Provides fiscal data, including terminology and notes. To view fiscal table, click the blue bar at the bottom of the page. The fiscal table is organized by investment area with breakdowns by strategy.
Resources and notes Provides information on data collection, evaluation, methods, and considerations.
