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Need help paying for child care? The Best Starts Child Care Subsidy is now enrolling families!
King County families can now enroll in a subsidy that will help them save an average of $15,000 in child care costs.
New dashboard: Find a Best Starts Capital Project near you!
The second Best Starts levy introduced additional funding for capital projects, including building repairs, renovations, and new construction or expansion of community and recreational centers and early learning and child care facilities. We...
What to expect when you take the Best Starts Health Survey
Beginning this month, thousands of randomly chosen families with children in elementary school or younger will receive a postcard and letter asking them to take the Best Starts for Kids Health Survey. This survey is conducted every two or three...
Non-Best Starts for Kids Funding Opportunities List – January to March deadlines
At Best Starts we are working to build long-term sustainable supports for our community so that every baby born and child raised is happy, healthy, safe and thriving. Part of building sustainable systems is recognizing we can’t do it all on our...
Submit a proposal to present at the Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Summit
Best Starts is hosting our second annual Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH) Summit on May 15 – 16, 2026 at Tukwila Community Center! This year’s summit is centered on “Abundance in Community.” Babies are enriched by the...
Introducing the new Best Starts blog!
We’re excited to introduce the new Best Starts for Kids blog! Best Starts partnered with Resource Media to redesign and create a site that is responsive, accessible, easy to navigate, and aligned with our core values. Thank you to our community...
We’re hiring an Educator Consultant I (Perinatal Hepatitis B Prevention)!
The application deadline is January 5, 2026 at 11:59 pm Pacific. Best Starts for Kids is hiring an Educator Consultant I (Perinatal Hepatitis B Prevention)! The position will develop and strengthen collaborative partnerships, enhance hepatitis...
Announcing 61 Investing Early RFP awardees
Children grow up healthy and thrive when expecting parents, babies, and young children are supported during their critical development years alongside their families and caregivers. Through our Investing Early Together request for proposals,...
We’re hiring an Infant Mortality Prevention and Early Relationships Project/Program Manager III!
The application deadline is December 31, 2025 at 11:59 pm Pacific. Best Starts for Kids is hiring an Infant Mortality Prevention and Early Relationships Project/Program Manager III! The position will lead implementation and coordination of the...
Now accepting applications for the Capital Program RFP – submit a pre-proposal by January 14!
Editor's note 3/16/26: Due to inclement weather and internet outages, the final proposal submission deadline has been extended from March 13 to March 17, 2026 at 2PM. The blog post below reflects this change. We are excited to share the Best...
Best Starts Workshops
We offer equity-centered workshops for King County early childhood providers.
Best Starts for Kids Dashboard
This dashboard shows the impact of Best Starts funding across its eight investment areas: 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.