Many of the items below are on the AmazonSmile wish list we have created!
Shop through our AmazonSmile wish list and you will be helping us in the easiest way possible for you, since the items you donate will be sent directly to us. The bonus: When you select SAFEchild as your chosen charity on AmazonSmile, we will receive a donation from your purchase!
Find our AmazonSmile wish list here. Please contact Holly Cook at hcook@safechildnc.org if you have questions.
We maintain a wish list of items we need at SAFEchild on a regular basis. Here’s our current list:
Books
We need new or gently used children’s picture books.
Find all of the following books on our Amazon wish list or wherever you like to purchase books:
- What About Us? A New Parents Guide
- Good Moms Have Scary Thoughts
- Knowing What to Say: Finding the Words to Fit Any Situation
- Celebrate Your Body (and Its Changes, Too!)
- Solo Para Chicos – a Spanish-language book for boys about growing up
- Solo Para Chicas – a Spanish-language book for girls about growing up
At this time, we have enough of the following books:
- American Girl books The Care and Keeping of You and/or Guy Stuff: The Body Book for Boys — fulfilled – thank you!
- Who’s the Boss of This Body? — fulfilled – thank you!
Snack items
Many of the children who come to the SAFEchild Advocacy Center to be evaluated for abuse or neglect arrive hungry and need some food before being examined by our pediatrician and interviewed by our child abuse evaluation specialist. Your donations of the following snack items will help defray our costs:
- Bottled water
- Individually packaged snacks, such as: Pirates Booty; Goldfish crackers; veggie chips; animal crackers; pretzels; applesauce; peanut butter crackers – most of these are on our Amazon wish list
- Protein-rich snacks such as nut packets
- Granola bars (e.g., Z-Bars, kids Cliff Bars)
- String cheese
- Strawberry or blueberry yogurt
- Lunchables
- Bananas, oranges, apples or other shelf-stable fruit
- Uncrustables (premade PB&J)
- Frozen Eggo waffles
- Disposable coffee cups WITH LIDS – find them on our Amazon wish list
- Compostable paper plates and cutlery – find them on our Amazon wish list
Children’s Play Items
- Paperboard puzzles (10-piece up to 50-piece)
- Crayola Model Magic – find this on our Amazon wish list
- Bubble sensory fidget toys and Rubiks cube – find them on our Amazon wish list
Baby supplies
- My first baby teething toy – this is on our Amazon wish list
Cleaning and paper products
- Disinfectant spray (e.g., Lysol, Clorox)
- Paper towels – jumbo rolls preferred!
Disinfecting wipes(we have a good supply right now!)Hand sanitizer(we have a good supply right now!)
Class supplies
- 1-inch or ½-inch new white binders with plastic inserts on the front – find them on our Amazon wish list
- Blank journals to give to mothers
- Easel flip charts with paper with sticky backs