HOW DOES LACK OF DIAPERS AFFECT FAMILIES & CHILDREN?

An insufficient number of diapers has many detrimental outcomes for children and families including a lack of physical, mental, emotional, and educational well-being.

Most immediately, an inadequate supply of diapers forces many parents to leave their children in a soiled diaper longer than is appropriate–sometimes for days at a time. This leads to diaper rash, staph, and urinary tract infections.

When parents run out of diapers, they are forced to withdraw their children from childcare. Without proper child care, parents cannot work to support their families and cannot attend the schooling that will help them provide a firm economic base for their family.

MISSION

Mission: Sweet Cheeks Diaper Bank partners with local social service agencies to provide free diapers to low-income families while raising awareness of the basic health need for diapers.

Vision: Our vision is to eliminate the existence of diaper need in our community so that all babies have a chance to be healthy, happy, and safe.

OUR HISTORY

Values

Advocacy: We compassionately end diaper need through education.

Engagement: We work together to ensure all babies have clean diapers.

Inclusion: We bridge gaps between communities to give kids a healthy start.

Innovation: We infuse fun into creatively diminishing the diaper gap.

Respect: We treat everyone with the same care we give our families.