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The School-to-Work strategy connects students with developmental disabilities to employment services while they are still in high school transition programs. At Best Starts we know employment can be an important way for young people to connect...
At Best Starts, we want babies and young children to grow up happy, healthy, and strong. We know that exposure to even a small amount of lead can cause serious health problems for children such as damage to the brain and slowed growth. Our Lead...
We are excited to share our 2022 Annual Report: Learning, Growing, and Thriving! Read the full 2022 Best Starts Annual Report View the Best Starts Data Dashboard In 2022, Best Starts for Kids expanded into new investment areas, responding to...
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...
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.