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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...
Crisis resources for young people and their families: If you or someone you know is struggling with depression or suicidal ideation you can call Crisis Connections or one of these lines for support: Children’s Crisis...
Through partnership with community organizations, families, and child care providers, the Best Starts for Kids Child Care Subsidy is now reaching 1,800 children. This amounts to $2 million per month that Best Starts is distributing to help...
Photo provided by the Liberated Village. The Liberated Village, made up of 19 Best Starts-funded organizations working collectively, focused on creating a movement for transformation that requires a solid network, meaning ‘building a net...
The Tesfa Program, developed this web-based Outreach toolkit to increase the capacity of providers, organizations, and decision-makers to better connect and serve local Ethiopian communities.
To honor BIPOC Mental Health Awareness Month, we are featuring a story from a young person who explores the impacts of mental health challenges and the public health crisis of systemic racism. Across our region and country, young...
In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, we want to share a story featuring a young person who is living through a disruptive pandemic and highlight upcoming events and resources to support your mental and emotional health beyond May.
May is Mental Health Awareness Month! we’re grateful to feature stories from young people this week who have been living through a disruptive pandemic and highlight upcoming events and resources to support your mental and emotional health beyond May.
“With Help Me Grow, our team becomes the anchor of community connections for our families." Read on to hear how our community-driven network connects families and caregivers with children under 5 to the supports they're seeking, when they want and how they need it.
What does it look like to build the new economy and new ways of being in relationship to money, work, land, and one another that support collective thriving? Communities are asking and answering these questions by re-envisioning and shifting how they work, and creating new models and innovations outside the status quo.
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.