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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.
Communities of Opportunity has launched a new, six-part “Cultivating Community” Speaker Series! Designed to amplify and learn from the efforts of our community-driven partners the series explores the community-led transformations that are cultivating abundance, healing, and new possibilities.
Students, graduates, and staff gathered outdoors at YouthSource in Tukwila at the end of June to celebrate the end of the academic year and recognize students who had received their GED or high school diploma, completed internships, or made...
We found that three themes — equity, co-creation, and responsive adaptation — are key values held by each Innovation Fund team, spanning across all 18 partnerships. Here’s how they put these values into action while implementing new approaches to support the health and well-being of our communities.
Over the past 3 years, Best Starts has partnered with communities across King County to establish 22 Kaleidoscope Play and Learn groups to promote positive and healthy outcomes for our youngest children and support parents and caregivers as they prepare their young ones for kindergarten.
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.