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Best Starts for Kids

Providing King County kids with the best start in life

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Best Starts for Kids is a King County voter-approved initiative to support every baby born or child raised in King County to reach adulthood happy, healthy, safe, and thriving. Through comprehensive supports from prenatal development to adulthood, Best Starts for Kids catalyzes strong starts in early childhood and sustains those gains as kids progress to adulthood, launching King County’s kids on a path to lifelong health and well-being.

To date, Best Starts for Kids has served more than half of a million King County children, youth, young adults, and families in partnership with more than five hundred community-based organizations.

Programs and funding opportunities

View our open, upcoming, and closed funding opportunities, or find technical and capacity assistance.

About Best Starts for Kids

Learn more about how we support kids, youth, and families.

Our partners

See who we're partnering with across King County.

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