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Best Starts for Kids 2023 report: county says programs served 151,000 people and readies 2025 procurements
Summary
Best Starts for Kids co-leads presented the program's 2023 annual report showing investments across childcare, prevention and youth services; the levy-funded program served about 151,000 children, youth and families and will launch several procurements and a childcare wage-boost pilot in 2025.
Best Starts for Kids (BSK) co-leads briefed the Health, Housing and Human Services Committee on Feb. 4 about the program's 2023 annual report and related updates for 2025.
The report covers the second annual year of the 2022-27 levy period. DCHS and Public Health co-leads said BSK invested in promotion, prevention, early intervention and policy/systems change and reported that, in 2023, BSK partnered with 336 community organizations operating roughly 591 programs that served an estimated 151,000 children, youth and family members across King County.
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