Diaper Drive to be held in Kenosha County during month of September

KENOSHA COUNTY -- The Kenosha Lifecourse Initiative for Healthy Families (LIHF) will be holding special activities in September to promote Infant Mortality Awareness, including an annual Diaper Drive and community resource campaign to offset diaper expenses for families.

National Diaper Need Awareness Week is September 26th -October 2nd and in honor the Kenosha LIHF is having a Diaper Drive during the month of September.

Diapers can be donated at the Job Center located at 8600 Sheridan Road: Parent Services Network (PSN) Resource Center, or the Health Department, 2nd Floor.

Registration is required for diapers. Register for diapers at: KAFASI, PSN, Outreach Center, WIC or Women and Children’s Horizon.  After September 22nd, extra diapers will supplied to WIC, PSN and the Outreach Center for families involved with their agency.

2016 Infant Mortality Awareness events to address co-parenting, empowering girls and infant health and safety:

For more information, please call the Kenosha County Division of Health at (262) 605- 6700, (800) 472-8008, or visit www.kenoshacounty.org.

The Kenosha Lifecourse Initiative for Healthy Families (LIHF), is a collaborative of more than 20 agencies in the community that has been meeting since 2010 to increase awareness, improve birth outcomes and help families have healthy babies