First Step Family Support Center

📣 THE BASICS AREN’T BASIC. THEY’RE ESSENTIAL.

And September is almost over, which means we're entering the final stretch of The Great Diaper Drive! 🏁🍑

If you've been meaning to donate, consider this your official kick in the pants.

🧷 Grab a pack of diapers.
🧻 Toss in some wipes.
💵 Give a few dollars.
🏆 Help your favorite team make one last push for the Golden Diaper!

Every diaper collected stays focused on doing something pretty simple—and pretty important: helping local babies stay clean, dry, and healthy.

Let's finish this thing with a BIG BOTTOM LINE. 💙

Find participating partners and ways to give at firststepfamilysupport.org.

🚨 THE GOLDEN DIAPER IS STILL UP FOR GRABS! 🚨

We’re officially in the final week of The Great Diaper Drive, and things are getting competitive!

A huge shoutout to our current leaders:
🥇 Port Angeles Eagles Auxiliary — 10,000 points
🥈 Jefferson County Public Health — 4,610 points
🥉 Clallam County Sheriff's Office — 3,708 points

But don’t get too comfy at the top! These are preliminary totals and do NOT include all the diapers, wipes, and dollars currently sitting in collection bins, offices, businesses, back rooms, or maybe even someone’s trunk waiting to be counted.

That means there’s still plenty of time for a diaper upset. The coveted Golden Diaper Trophy is very much up for grabs!

We have just under ONE WEEK LEFT to fill those bins, rally your coworkers, challenge your friends, and bring in as many diapers and wipes as you can. Every donation helps keep babies across our community clean, healthy, and dry.

🏆 Who’s going to take home the Golden Diaper this year?

Let’s finish this drive with a BIG bottom line!

🚨 No diapers can mean no childcare. And no childcare can mean no work.

Turns out diapers do a whole lot more than cover tiny bottoms.

For working parents, having enough diapers can be the difference between getting a child to daycare and having to miss work or school.

So when you donate to The Great Diaper Drive, you aren’t just donating diapers.

You’re helping families work, learn, stay healthy, and keep moving forward.

That’s a lot of impact packed into one little diaper. 🧷💙

Let’s get behind local families. (Pun absolutely intended. 🍑)

😳 12 DIAPERS. ONE DAY. ONE TINY HUMAN.

Babies are adorable.

They are also shockingly productive. 💩😂

A baby can go through up to 12 diapers a day, and those costs add up FAST.

That's why your Great Diaper Drive donation matters. A pack here. A box there. A few dollars online. It all adds up to cleaner, healthier babies and a little less stress for local families.

So while babies handle the dirty work, we’ll handle the diaper drive. 🧷

We had such a great time at Jefferson County Public Health yesterday!!
Come see us and learn more about our county's diaper need! We will be accepting donations at the Walmart in Sequim on September 27th from 12pm to 3pm and at the Port Angeles Walmart on September 29th from
1-4pm!

🥊 IN THIS CORNER: Diaper Need.

🥊 AND IN THE OTHER CORNER: An entire community armed with diapers, wipes, dollars, and an unreasonable desire to win a shiny Golden Diaper.

We like our odds. 😎🏆

September is The Great Diaper Drive, and every single donation counts.

Pick your team. Find a collection site. Rally your coworkers. Recruit your friends.

And remember: no ifs, ands, or butts about it—we’re fighting diaper need together. 🍑

1 in 2. That number deserves a change. 🧷

Diaper need can mean stretching diapers longer than is healthy, cutting other necessities from the family budget, or struggling to meet childcare requirements.

But here’s another number we love:

ONE community can make a BIG difference. 💙

Grab a pack. Fill a collection box. Give a few bucks. Challenge another business to collect more than you.

Together, we can wipe out diaper need—and maybe have a little fun chasing that Golden Diaper while we're at it. 🏆🍑

🍑 Let’s talk about tushies.

Big tushies. Tiny tushies. Wiggly tushies. Brand-new tushies.

They all have one thing in common: they deserve a clean diaper.

Diapers are a basic need—and this September, our community is coming together to make sure more local families can get them.

Donate diapers. Donate dollars. Start a team. Challenge a coworker. Get ridiculously competitive over the Golden Diaper. 🏆

Whatever you do, just don’t sit this one out. 😉

🧷 We’ve got some facts that may diaper-surprise you.

Nearly half of U.S. families with young children experience diaper need. And when diapers don’t fit into the budget, families may have to cut back on other essentials like food and utilities.

That’s a pretty crappy choice for any family to have to make. 💩

The good news? We can do something about it.

Throughout September, donate diapers, wipes, or dollars to The Great Diaper Drive and help us make sure local families have the basics they need.

Because around here, we give a crap. 💙

Donate today through one of our Great Diaper Drive partners in person, or online at https://firststepfamilysupport.org/program/the-great-diaper-drive/

Thank you to our diaper partners: Clallam County Sheriff's Office, Clallam County Health and Human Services - Public Health, Port Scandalous Roller Derby, Port Angeles Eagles Auxiliary #483, 1st Security Bank, Jefferson County Public Health, Elks Lodge #2642, The Warehouse Furniture & Mattress Company, Forks Community Hospital, QFC Port Townsend and DA Davidson!