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Register for our Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Summit: May 16 – 18, 2025
The deadline to register is April 28, 2025. Best Starts’ Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH) strategy invites all King County providers to enhance knowledge in community and solidarity. Centering the baby in all sessions and...
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...
Non-Best Starts for Kids Funding Opportunities List – February
At Best Starts we are working to build long-term sustainable supports for our community so that every baby born and child raised is happy, healthy, safe and thriving. Part of building sustainable systems is recognizing we can’t do it all on our...
Best Starts for Kids Child Care Wage Boost Pilot application is live!
Child care facilities can now apply to join the Best Starts Child Care Wage Boost Pilot. Applications close March 7. Apply here! Eligible facilities will be selected by lottery, and workers at selected facilities can enroll to receive a...
Register for the spring King County Perinatal Providers Gathering: April 3, 2025
We’re excited to host our spring King County Perinatal Providers Gathering! This event is for King County birthworkers: doulas, home visitors, peer specialists, lactation consultants, midwives, and providers who support families during the...
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...
New tool for child care providers: The King County Child Care Health Consultant Registry!
We’re excited to launch a new King County Child Care Health Consultant (CCHC) Registry! This registry is a new tool for child care providers, including family, friend, and neighbor caregivers, license-exempt programs, and providers in licensed...
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...
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