Best Starts for Kids
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Help comes in many packages
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Volunteer and member resources
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kids, youth, & caregivers served through mid-2020
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Our spring Best Starts playlist: rewatch info sessions for opportunities releasing in April – June, 2025
At Best Starts, we are working in deep partnership across the initiative to share open and upcoming opportunities with the community. If there is an opportunity that you are interested in learning more about and applying for, we encourage you to...
Announcing our Second Levy Evaluation Awardee
As part of our work to model effective supports for babies, kids, young people, and families, Best Starts invests in data and evaluation to measure success and identify opportunities for improvement. In February, Best Starts issued a...
Introducing Community Co-designed Guiding Principles for Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health
Relationships are essential to our social and emotional wellbeing. This is especially true for babies and very young children as they learn, explore, and form close relationships. Best Starts Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH)...
UPDATED WITH NEW LINK: We’re hiring a Best Starts for Kids Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Project Manager!
Editors note: This position was reposted April 25 with a new classification. We apologize that applicants who have already applied will need to reapply. We have updated this blog post to reflect the new link, and timeline. Best Starts is...
Meet the Best Starts 2025-2027 Capacity Builders!
Children, young people, and families thrive when they have access to high-quality, equitable, and culturally relevant services and programs, and Best Starts partners with many small, culturally specific organizations to support those services....
Child care workers and employers: We want to hear from you!
Applications for the Best Starts for Kids Wage Boost Pilot opened February 10 and we want to make sure we hear from child care workers and employers about their experience and well-being. Directors and owners who apply or have already applied...
Best Starts for Kids is hiring a Help Me Grow Program Manager!
The application deadline is February 18, 2025 at 11:59 pm Pacific. Apply now! We’re hiring a Project/Program Manager III to manage our Help Me Grow Systems Building work, which involves working with external community partners. Job duties...
Best Starts for Kids is hiring two Contracts Manager!
The application deadline is February 17, 2025 at 11:59 pm Pacific. Apply now! We’re hiring two Contract Managers (PPM-II) to support programs such as Home-Based Services, Community-Based Parenting Support, Child Care Health Consultation, and...
The Children, Youth, and Young Adult Division’s look back on 2024
This was originally posted on the Department of Community & Human Services Cultivating Connections blog. The Children, Youth, and Young Adult Division (CYYAD) works to ensure all young people in King County have equitable opportunities to be...
Technical assistance support continues: meet our consultants!
We know that there are many systemic barriers and inequities that make it challenging for organizations to apply for funding opportunities. To support organizations as they navigate Best Starts for Kids’ application processes, we partner with...
