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Energize - Family Home Child Cares 

The Energize – Family Home Child Cares program provides services and County-managed installations in family home child cares to improve energy efficiency, indoor air quality, and resident comfort, and to lower energy costs. This program is open to licensed family home child cares (operated out of single-family homes) located in King, Kitsap, Pierce, and Snohomish Counties.


Program applications open January 12, 2026. Attend an information session to learn more:

What does the program provide?

This program provides program participants with a combination of the following items, depending on the building needs:

house with a thermometer, sun and snowflake   Heat pump installation to provide high efficiency heating and cooling

weatherization   Insulation, air sealing, and ventilation (also known as weatherization) to improve energy efficiency, health, and comfort

hot water heater   Heat pump water heaters for low-cost water heating

induction stove   Induction cookstoves

King County will manage all installations, including covering the costs of equipment and materials, and hiring and paying contractors. This is not a grant program.

This program will address community needs by supporting families and children with clean, efficient heating, cooling, and improved indoor air-quality (IAQ) while reducing fossil fuel consumption in buildings.

Who is eligible for the program?

Family Home Child Cares, run out of a single-family home, licensed by Washington State Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS), and located in King, Kitsap, Pierce, or Snohomish County.

While not an eligibility requirement, this program prioritizes family home child cares located in frontline communities, defined as those located in any of the following geographies:

  • Puget Sound Clean Air Agency overburdened communities 
  • WA Environmental Health Disparities Map score of 9 or more 
  • 2024 U.S. EPA defined low-income and disadvantaged communities  

Generally, these geographies share poorer air and soil quality, higher noise pollution, closer proximity to hazardous waste treatment and storage facilities, and greater risk of related negative health outcomes. Additionally, they experience reduced resiliency to climate change. 

Search your address on the map at the bottom of this page to see if your property is located in a frontline community geography.

Program Cost

King County will cover 100% of costs of installations, including managing all installation contractors and covering costs of equipment, materials, and labor.

How do I apply?

Applications open in January 2026. Please subscribe to get future updates from Energize about future program offerings.

King County will host an Energize - Family Home Child Cares Application Information Session in mid-late January. Details forthcoming.
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