We know that early positive interactions between caregivers and their children can have a great impact on success later in life. Home-based services are a type of relationship-based support provided by trained home visitors to expecting...
Help Me Grow is a national model designed to support families and their children by connecting them to what they need, when and how they need it. Help Me Grow King County (HMGKC) is rooted in the values of self-determination, strength, and...
Early Support for Infants and Toddlers (ESIT) promotes equitable outcomes for families with children, aged birth to three, who have developmental delays or disabilities. Eligible infants and toddlers, and their families, are entitled to...
The CBPS strategy provides community-centered, peer-based services to strengthen protective factors, mitigate risk, and increase health, safety, and social/emotional well-being of pregnant individuals, parents, and caregivers of children aged...
Child Care Health Consultation (CCHC) promotes the health, safety, and development of children and caregivers in child care settings. Multidisciplinary teams of community health workers, nurses, mental health professionals, nutritionists, and...
Nationally and locally, insufficient high quality child care is a growing crisis. Child care demand in our region is high, but the cost of care is unaffordable and many King County families are unable to find or access care that meets their...
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.