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Apply to join the Centering Black Excellence Community Workgroup
Best Starts Early Support for Infants and Toddlers (ESIT) strategy is seeking community members to join a new Centering Black Excellence Community Workgroup! The workgroup will help guide ESIT priorities and recommendations so that they remain...
Non-Best Starts for Kids Funding Opportunities List – December to February 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...
Register for the Centering Black Excellence Symposium December 9
Join us for the Centering Black Excellence Symposium on December 9, 9:30 am to 4 pm. This event is for anyone in King County who works in the early childhood field seeking to enhance their knowledge, skills, and commitment to creating a world...
Join King County’s Youth Bill of Rights Task Force!
Are you a young person who wants to shape local government and policy? Apply to join the King County Youth Bill of Rights Task Force by December 1! The King County Youth Bill of Rights will be launching a fourth cohort...
Register for the King County Perinatal Providers Gathering on December 3
Join us for the King County Perinatal Providers Gathering: End of Year Social on December 3, 2025, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm. This event is for King County birthworkers to celebrate and connect as we close out 2025. We’ll have activities that center...
Centering communities in program evaluation: Villa Comunitaria’s experience
Conducting surveys and assessments with program participants is an important part of program evaluation. At the same time, how do we ensure that program evaluation does not become a burden on families? How do we ask meaningful questions that...
We’re hiring a Youth Well-Being Program Coordinator!
The application deadline is November 30, 2025 at 11:59 pm Pacific. Apply now! Best Starts for Kids is hiring a Youth Well-Being Program Coordinator! Job Duties Participate in planning and program development for the Public Health-Seattle King...
Announcing 8 Help Me Grow awardees
Children and families thrive when they have access to the resources they need – when, where, and how they need them. Our Help Me Grow strategy provides families with warm connections and direct support – not just referrals – to navigate systems...
Announcing the 27 awardees of the Youth Healing Project
Young people have deep expertise about the resources and supports they and their peers need to be well. That's why Best Starts funds the Youth Healing Project, which provides mini grants to young people to create mental health supports for their...
Non-Best Starts for Kids Funding Opportunities List – November to January 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...
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.