Best Starts for Kids is a community-driven initiative to support every baby born and child raised in King County to reach adulthood happy, healthy, safe, and thriving. Supported by King County voters in 2015 and 2021, the initiative now includes additional funding for child care and capital projects.
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Our 2024 Impact
People Impacted
Invested in King County
Community Partners
New and Continuing Programs
Our Approach
Promotion
We increase positive opportunities available to babies, children, young people, and their families.
Prevention
We decrease factors that may prevent babies, children, and young people from growing up to be healthy and happy.
Early Intervention
We intervene early to support children and young people who need additional resources to succeed.
Policy & Systems Change
We work to change systems and policies so that all communities in the region can thrive and prosper regardless of race or place.
Our Commitment to Equity and Anti-Racism
Best Starts for Kids holds equity central to our work and we aspire to root out deeply entrenched systems of racism. We partner with communities and invest in community expertise to support where need is greatest.
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Upcoming Events and Learning Opportunities
Child Care workers: join an upcoming summit to learn about the impact of government investments in the workforce
Join the upcoming Child Care Worker Summit November 15! If you work in a child care facility, or support child care work, register to attend the summit where you learn about findings from the Best Starts for Kids Child Care Worker Wage Boost Pilot. The Best...
Learn about King County’s child care workforce at an upcoming Best Starts webinar
The Best Starts for Kids Wage Boost Pilot is hosting a webinar Nov. 6 that will present learnings about King County’s child care workforce gathered from a 2025 survey. Register here to join us Thursday, November 6 from 1:30-2:45pm. Attendance is limited to...
Spots available in 2025 Best Starts Workshops: Register now!
Best Starts for Kids offers no-cost, equity-centered workshops for prenatal-to-five early childhood providers in King County. Our Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health strategy has a few remaining workshops in 2025. View all workshops Power Play: A...
