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Best Starts for Kids hosted our first Open House of the year March 4, but if you feel like you missed out, don’t worry, we got you covered. If you’re curious about the upcoming funding opportunities, and want to learn more, we captured the...
Seattle/King County Clinic returns for its 10th year on April 24-27, 2025, and will provide FREE dental, vision, and medical services to anyone who struggles to access and/or afford care on a first-come, first-served basis at Seattle Center. No...
Best Starts for Kids is hosting a Virtual Open House March 4 so community partners have an opportunity to learn more about upcoming funding opportunities and resources. Register! We have four sessions attendees can join at the March Virtual...
The deadline to register is April 28, 2025. Best Starts’ Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH) strategy invites all King County providers to enhance knowledge in community and solidarity. Centering the baby in all sessions and...
We’re excited to host our spring King County Perinatal Providers Gathering! This event is for King County birthworkers: doulas, home visitors, peer specialists, lactation consultants, midwives, and providers who support families during the...
We’re excited to launch a new King County Child Care Health Consultant (CCHC) Registry! This registry is a new tool for child care providers, including family, friend, and neighbor caregivers, license-exempt programs, and providers in licensed...
If you are a child care worker, child care employer, or if you just want to learn more: join one of the upcoming information sessions about the Best Starts Child Care Wage Boost Pilot! Child care facilities in King County will be able to...
Join us for a presentation on the Best Starts Capital Program to learn more about upcoming funding opportunities. We will discuss our Priority 3 funding round, which will be released November 2024. Priority 3 funding will expand child care and...
Our Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Strategy and Child Care Health Consultation Strategy invites all King County child care providers and child care health consultants to our new 9-month program: The World Around Me: Grounding Infant...
The Culturally Responsive Measurement Tool - Protective Factors (CRMT-PF) is an instrument to measure protective factors in families with young children. Measuring protective factors is a strengths-based approach to understanding families’...
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.