Feedback during the 2016 Best Starts for Kids implementation planning process

Best Starts for Kids provides funding to community organizations, non-profits, schools and school districts, tribes and tribal organizations, and public or governmental agencies serving communities in King County. We consider our funding recipients as partners working together to achieve health and well-being for children, youth, families and communities. See where we're investing.

These Best Starts for Kids (BSK) indicators provide important information about the health and well-being of King County children, youth, families, and communities.

Information is organized into four areas:

Prenatal to 5 years: Babies are born healthy and are provided with a strong foundation for lifelong health and well-being.

5 to 24 years: King County is a place where everyone has equitable opportunities to be safe and healthy as they progress through childhood, building academic and life skills to be thriving members of their communities.

Youth and family homelessness prevention

Communities of Opportunity