Best Starts for Kids Health Survey

If your family received a letter in the mail, your child was randomly selected to participate:

• Your child’s name and their parent/guardian contact information is safely and securely gathered by Public Health – Seattle & King County in partnership with the Washington State Department of Health and King County’s public school districts. Families that asked schools not to share their information prior to Fall 2025 were not included.

• Through random selection, there is a better chance that the results will reflect the opinions and experiences of all King County families with young children.

• We understand that some of the survey questions might feel personal or be difficult to answer for various reasons. Participation is voluntary and questions can be skipped any time.
• All your answers are confidential. Only trained employees with permission to work with confidential information can see responses and all the data is carefully saved using secure technology.
• Children’s names are removed to keep responses confidential and only summarized results will be shared publicly. No one family or individual can be identified, and the data is collected only to inform Best Starts for Kids’ work.
• We will never ask for you or your child’s:
  • Social Security Number
  • Immigration status
  • Credit card information
  • Bank account information
  • Money or donations

• The findings from the earlier surveys are available anytime in our publicly available online dashboard.
• The findings from the 2026 survey should be available by early 2027. To get notified of survey updates, including when the new data is available, please subscribe to the Best Starts for Kids Blog.
• We will not be looking at results for every family individually; all survey responses are combined so that no one family or child can be identified.