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
IECMH Certificate Program: apply by July 25!
Best Starts' Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH) strategy invites all prenatal-to-five early childhood providers in King County to join our free 14-month IECMH Certificate Program on Centering Relationships and Social Justice in Early Childhood. The...
Launching the Best Starts for Kids Roadshow 2025
Best Starts for Kids is hitting the road again! This fall, Best Starts and partners will be hosting a series of community engagement events in every corner of King County to hear from community partners and municipal partners. At Best Starts, we know...
Register for our King County Perinatal Providers Gathering: A Self Care Event on June 27
A collage of photos from the spring 2025 King County Perinatal Providers Gathering Register! Join us for the next King County Perinatal Providers Gathering on June 27, 2025, 11:00 am – 3:00 pm. This gathering is for King County birthworkers to focus on self care....
