Our Investment Areas
Best Starts partners with King County communities to strengthen programs and respond to community needs across key investment areas.
What we Do
Investing Early
We build a robust system of programs for pregnant people, babies, young children, and their families and caregivers, meeting them where they are: at home, in the community, and wherever children receive care. Click on each strategy to learn more!
PDFs
- Child Care Health Consultations
- Community-Based Parenting Supports
- Early Support for Infants and Toddlers
- Help Me Grow
- Home-Based Services
- Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health
- Innovation Supports
- Environmental Supports: Lead & Toxics
- Parent and Child Health Services
- Universal Developmental Screening (UDS)
- Workforce Development
What we Do
Sustaining the Gain
We provide school- and community-based opportunities for children and young people to enhance their social-emotional development and mental well-being through connection with peers and supportive adults in and out of school. Click on each strategy to learn more!
PDFs
- Child and Adolescent Immunizations
- Expanded Learning
- Healthy and Safe Environments
- Liberation and Healing
- Positive Family Connections
- School-Based Health Centers
- School-Based Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment/Services
- Stopping the School-to-Prison Pipeline
- Transitions to Adulthood
- Youth Development
What we Do
Youth & Family Homelessness Prevention Initiative
Provides concrete resources and case management to prevent families and young people from losing stable housing.
What we Do
Communities of Opportunity
Invests in communities by strengthening partnerships, sharing knowledge, and building capacity in communities to change systems and policies to create fair and lasting conditions in housing, health, and economic opportunities for children and their families.
What we Do
Child Care
We offer subsidies for families to make this service more affordable and invest in the child care workforce so that workers are well-compensated and supported.
PDFs
Child Care Subsidy Program waitlist: https://bskchildcare.org/
Call or Text 206-208-6865 or email: support@bskchildcare.org
Child Care Wage Boost Pilot website: https://bskwageboost.imaginewa.org/
What we Do
Capital Projects
We improve and create physical community spaces to equitably expand access to high-quality programs and services for children, young people, and families.
Meet our past and present partners.