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The rising cost of real estate across King County impacts low-income communities and Black, Indigenous People of Color hardest. That’s why Best Starts’ investments in capital projects are driven...
Measuring protective factors is a strengths-based way of understanding the health and well-being of families and communities. The Culturally Responsive Measurement Tool – Protective Factors (CRMT-PF) is a 22-question survey that measures...
The exclusion and erasure of Indigenous people in data is rooted in colonial research practices that are deeply embedded in Western systems of data. Indigenous people have always a collected, analyzed, and shared data in their own ways that have been ignored and discounted by many “mainstream” data projects. This underscores the need to rethink race and ethnicity measures with Indigenous people, organizations, and Native nations.
At Best Starts we know that collaboration with community is good practice and supports quality evaluation. That’s why we’ve invested in a unique Community-Led Data strategy, so organizations lead the process of...
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...
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...
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 excited to share A Year in Review (leer en español) that shows the impact of Best Starts funding through highlights drawn from the 2024 Best Starts for Kids Annual Report. In 2024, Best Starts partnered with 365 community-based...
In 2023, child care health advocates and partners convened to develop A Strategic Vision for the Child Care Health Consultation System in King County. This strategic vision includes actionable recommendations and foundational investments needed...
Young people across the country and here in King County have faced increased challenges to their mental health and well-being – a trend that started before the pandemic. Young people who are girls, Black, Brown, Indigenous, and People of...
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.