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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.
At Best Starts, we ground our work in community knowledge as well as science and research in an effort to continually reflect community expertise, address gaps in services and resources, and support the health and well-being of families and...
We know that our partners are the experts of our communities. We also know that they are in the best position to implement new creative programs, projects, and approaches that draw on their community’s skills and strengths to support the health...
We have reposted this blog post from the Communities Count blog, please note that it has been edited for brevity. In this two-part blog series, we share what we heard from parents and families on their experiences of everyday racism through...
In the late summer, we posted a blog post on our initial learnings from the Best Starts for Kids Health Survey and what families had shared with us so far about their experiences during the pandemic. Today, as we share out our final report, we...
This blog post was reposted from Communities Count blog and written by the Best Starts for Kids Evaluation team in partnership with the Community Café Collaborative and other partners. Image produced during the First Peoples’ Café discussion and...
Relationships are at the heart of human development and are necessary for thriving. Research explains that the first three years of an infant’s life are pivotal to their social and emotional development; our communities know that these early...
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.