By targeting our donations of books and learning products to after-school tutoring programs, or to communities such as Native American reservations, we give new, age-appropriate books to children, many of whom have never owned their own books. They can now share their joy of reading at home with their family and build their reading skills for the future.

Domestic abuse touches entire families, who are uprooted from their homes to family shelters, away from friends, schools and things familiar and reassuring. Through our social service agency affiliates we serve tens of thousands of children in family shelters who receive warm clothes, shoes, toys and personal care products. This important work of providing new clothing and school supplies helps restore a child’s sense of safety and routine.

The Safe Sleep Center concept is simple:

K.I.D.S. is focusing our baby gear and diaper donations to the our programs located with the highest rates of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) around the country. These programs will be called K.I.D.S. Safe Sleep Centers. What makes them different from other K.I.D.S. programs? Every baby item given to a low-income family from K.I.D.S. will also have safe sleep messages attached.

If we gave out the info just once, it might raise awareness. But K.I.D.S. is not going to stop there. With every single baby product merchandise donation, from cribs to high chairs, to strollers to car seats to bottles to blankets to baby apparel to diapers, the message will be given again and again and again. That information will turn into knowledge. That knowledge will turn into a habit. And that habit will keep more babies alive.

K.I.D.S. helps children in hospitals, hospices or special rehabilitation centers with new products that provide relief and a welcome distraction from their illness. New books, games or toys give them an opportunity to interact with their peers and spend playful time with their families.

K.I.D.S. provides infant and juvenile items to children and parents through our collaboration with Operation Homefront and other military support organizations. Our donations of cribs, diapers, baby bottles, care seats, etc., help these families stretch their limited resources and budgets while their loved ones fight overseas for our freedom.