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Best Starts for Kids is hiring a Data Team Intern III (Graduate Intern) to support several evaluation projects with our Technical Assistance and Capacity Building program and Communities of Opportunity team. This internship is anticipated to...
Families need accessible community spaces and quality programming for children to grow up happy, healthy, safe, and thriving. Through Best Starts Capital Program Priority 3 request for proposals, we are excited to expand child care...
Best Starts for Kids and The Capacity Collective are hosting one-hour long focus groups to understand potential supports and barriers to implementing the Culturally Responsive Measurement Tool – Protective Factors (CRMT-PF) in early learning...
The application deadline is August 2, 2025 at 11:59 pm Pacific. Apply Best Starts for Kids is hiring a Capital Program Manager III to oversee investments related to pre-development, construction, maintenance, renovation and expansion...
Best Starts’ partner, ORS Impact, is recruiting participants for an Evaluation Advisory Committee to help provide guidance to the evaluation of the second Best Starts for Kids Levy. If you are with a provider organization: Fill out this form to...
Young people thrive when they have access to safe, supportive environments, that provide a sense of belonging. Our Youth Development strategy resources programs that provide mentorship, leadership opportunities, connections to community and...
This was originally posted on the Department of Community and Human Services Cultivating Connections blog. After over a decade with King County Department of Community and Human Services, Sheila Ater Capestany will depart the Children, Youth and...
Best Starts is partnering with Resource Media to redesign the Best Starts for Kids blog! We want to create a site that is responsive, accessible, easy to navigate, and aligned with our core values. Your feedback is essential and will help us...
At Best Starts, we work to build equitable systems and create pathways of success for young people 12 to 24 years old. Our Stopping the School-to-Prison Pipeline (SSPP) strategy partners with community-based organizations to support young people...
The application deadline is June 7, 2025 at 11:59 pm Pacific. Apply now! Best Starts for Kids is hiring an Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH) Strategy Lead (Project/Program Manager III) to improve the social and emotional outcomes...
We offer equity-centered workshops for King County early childhood providers.
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.