More than 200 young leaders build shared vision at Youth Leadership Summit
Young people from every corner of King County came together at the Museum of Flight on a sunny Saturday in May to build a shared vision of youth leadership in our region.
Impact Stories
Discover our partners and the meaningful impact they make every day.
Learn about the child care workers enrolled in the Best Starts for Kids Child Care Wage Boost Pilot
Child care is the work that makes all other work possible. But for too long, child care workers have been underpaid and underrecognized for the essential work they do. We’re working to change that. That’s why we launched the Best...
Supportive Childcare Provider Alliance: Built by and for providers
This year, Supportive Childcare Provider Alliance (SCPA) celebrated 27 childcare providers who completed the SCPA Childcare Business 101 training series. The series is designed for new, emerging, and existing childcare providers, who attended 10...
Two capital projects completed: Children’s Therapy Center and Encompass Northwest
When infrastructure and community spaces are safe and align with the community’s needs, children and families can be happy, healthy, and safe. Through our Capital Program Priority 2 request for proposals, Best Starts is supporting...
New survey: How the Best Starts for Kids Child Care Subsidy helps families
Families shared that the subsidy overwhelmingly improved their well-being, ability to pay for basic needs, their relationships, and pursue goals.
The Children, Youth, and Young Adult Division’s look back on 2024
This was originally posted on the Department of Community & Human Services Cultivating Connections blog. The Children, Youth, and Young Adult Division (CYYAD) works to ensure all young people in King County have equitable opportunities to be...
Update: King County programs helps a young person secure his dream job
In the span of a little more than a year, 19-year-old Jordan Kinney shifted from feeling hopeless to securing a dream job, with help from King County youth programs. Earlier this year, we shared Jordan’s story, just after he had...
What can we do to limit PFAS? A comic explains (part 3)
This was originally published on the Public Health - Seattle & King County Public Health Insider. Leer en Español In this final comic in a series about a group of chemicals known as “Forever Chemicals” or PFAS, we share ways that Public...
How can we reduce exposure to PFAS? A comic strip explains (part 2)
This was originally published on the Public Health - Seattle & King County Public Health Insider. Leer en Español This is the second comic in a series about a group of chemicals known as “Forever Chemicals” or PFAS, short for perfluoroalkyl...
What are PFAS and why are they harmful? A comic strip explains.
This was originally published on the Public Health - Seattle & King County Public Health Insider. Leer en Español We’re learning that some chemicals found in common household products are alarmingly toxic. This is the first comic in a series...
Best Starts Workshops
We offer equity-centered workshops for King County early childhood providers.
Best Starts for Kids Dashboard
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.