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Help us make sure all voices are represented in the Best Starts for Kids Health Survey! Best Starts for Kids is now in its eighth year and the needs and priorities within our communities continue to change. The Best Starts for Kids Health Survey...
Since 2020, Best Starts for Kids has been working with The Capacity Collective to develop the Culturally Responsive Measurement Tool – Protective Factors (CRMT-PF) for organizations to use, with the goal of developing a culturally responsive,...
Best Starts is well into the second year of the 2022-2027 levy and has been working to address recommendations from the First Levy Evaluation. The First Levy Evaluation assessed the successes, challenges, and implementation learnings from the...
Child Care Health Consultation (CCHC) is a Best Starts strategy that promotes the health, safety, and development of children and child care providers in child care settings. Child care health consultants provide culturally and linguistically...
Do families in our region receive the child care they need? How are families handling the demands of raising children? Are kids thriving in supportive school environments? Beginning this week, about 15,000 randomly chosen families with children...
In early 2021, Best Starts for Kids partnered with Cardea to conduct a landscape analysis focusing on children and families at the intersection of Early Support for Infants and Toddlers (ESIT) services and the child welfare system. The purpose...
Best Starts recently updated our report: King County Communities Speak Their Truth About Racism with additional findings from a 2022 community café discussion with West African families. Originally published in 2021, this report...
This blog was written by: Nathalie Jones of Puget Sound Educational Service District The first Best Starts for Kids levy supported schools and community-based organizations (CBOs) to create school environments that are safe, supportive,...
We are proud to share our 2021 annual report! Read the full annual report here In a year that fluctuated between high hopes and continued struggles, strong relationships served as the backbone for communities across King County as we navigated...
Best Starts invested in new approaches to Child Care Health Consultation (CCHC) in 2018 to leverage communities’ strengths, while reaching formal and informal care providers who have been consistently underserved. Culturally-relevant child care, and child care supports, build up communities that are connected and vibrant. CCHC offers community-oriented and engaged support to child care providers in our community. We are pleased to release our report that captures the impacts of CCHC.
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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.