Kid Blog
Join KID for the 2013 Best Friend Award Night
Join KID at our annual Best Friend Award Night May 23, 2013 at Fulton’s on the River in Chicago. KID and our supporters will gather to mark our 15th year and a new KID Best Friend. At the event, KID … Continue reading
Mother’s Day and Danny
This Sunday is Mother’s Day, a day when many of us delight in our children and our moms. It is reminder of the precious gift of children – and a chance for those children to honor their mothers for the … Continue reading
Top 5 reasons your group should have a safety workshop
When Danny Keysar died, both his parents and his caregiver were shocked to find the product had been previously recalled and Danny wasn’t the first child to die. A key part of KID’s mission is to educate parents and caregivers about unsafe … Continue reading
3 cheers for KID’s amazing volunteers!
National Volunteer Week gives us here at KID a great opportunity to sit back and reflect on all the great work our volunteers do for the KID organization every day. In March alone, volunteers served a total of 135 hours … Continue reading
Update on crib bumper pad action in Maryland and Illinois
First the good news… Maryland’s legislative session ended with no further action on SB 618 which was an attempt to stop the ban on the sale of crib bumper pads which is to go into effect in June. With that, … Continue reading
This week in children’s product safety…
Attention all Illinois residents! The Illinois House is considering HB 3052 which would bring the rest of the state in line with Chicago’s adoption of a ban on the sale of crib bumper pads. Call your legislator and urge them … Continue reading
KID adds to National Public Health Week efforts
If you follow KID on Twitter (and we hope you do!) you know that we have been tweeting all week about National Public Health Week (NPHW), celebrated the first week of April each year. The focus of NPHW is to … Continue reading
Support HB 3052 to help keep Illinois babies safe
HB 3052 (McAsey) is a bill that would ban the sale of crib bumper pad sales in the state of Illinois. Currently, bumper pads are illegal to sell in the city of Chicago and the state of Maryland (effective June … Continue reading