Resources
Connecting Families to Community Support
This page provides helpful links and information for Durham-area services, diaper and essential supply programs, and state and national parenting resources. Whether you’re looking for local family support, health and safety guidance, or early childhood education tools, these trusted partners and programs are here to help.
All listed resources are free or low-cost and are intended to make parenting a little easier, safer, and more supported.
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The following are broken down into:
Durham Resources
Find organizations and programs across Durham County that provide family support, childcare, health services, food assistance, housing help, and parenting education. These local partners work closely with Welcome Baby to strengthen and uplift our community.
- DSS Child Care (opens in a new tab)
The mission of DSS Child Care is to assist families living in Durham County with information and access to child care services.
- Durham Cooperative Extension (4-H) (opens in a new tab)
North Carolina Cooperative Extension partners with communities to deliver education and technology that enrich the lives, land and economy of North Carolinians.
- Durham Crisis Response Center (opens in a new tab)
The Durham Crisis Response Center works with the community to end domestic and sexual violence through advocacy, education, support and prevention.
- Durham Early Head Start (opens in a new tab)
DEHS is a federally-funded, free and comprehensive child development and family support program for low-income expectant women and families with infants and toddlers age birth to 3. Families participate through two program models: intensive home visiting and full-day, center-based child care.
- Durham County Department of Health (opens in a new tab)
The Durham County Department of Health works with the community to prevent disease, promote health, and protect the environment.
- Durham Mothers Club
The Durham Mothers Club is a support network just for moms in Durham, North Carolina.
- East Durham Children’s Initiative (opens in a new tab)
EDCI’s mission is to create a pipeline of high-quality services from birth through high school graduation for children and families living in a 120-block area of East Durham.
- El Futuro (opens in a new tab)
El Futuro is a nonprofit outpatient clinic that provides comprehensive mental health services for Latino families in a bilingual environment of healing and hope.
- Family Connects Durham (opens in a new tab)
FCD (formerly Durham Connects) is a community-wide nurse home visiting program for all parents of newborns, regardless of income or socioeconomic status.
- Healthy Families Durham (opens in a new tab)
HFD offers early childhood intervention services through an intensive home-visiting program. The program is designed to improve parent-child interaction and child social-emotional well-being, promote parenting skills, enhance child health and development, increase school readiness, support family self-sufficiency, and reduce risk for child maltreatment.
- Latino Educational Achievement Partnership (opens in a new tab)
LEAP empowers Latino and other children in Durham to achieve academic success by providing a high-quality preschool and ongoing support through middle school.
- Mocha Moms Durham (opens in a new tab)
Mocha Moms is the premier voice for mothers of color. Through chapters and online, Mocha Moms provides support for women of color as they journey through all phases of motherhood while advocating for them nationally.
- Chapel Hill-Durham Parents of Multiples (opens in a new tab)
CHDPOM is an organization dedicated to families of twins, triplets or higher-order multiples. We are a group that provides educational and emotional support and social activities for its members. CHDPOM is a nonprofit support organization with approximately 200 members in the Chapel Hill-Durham and surrounding North Carolina areas.
Diaper Resources
Due to a high demand for supplemental diapers, The Diaper Bank is reducing the inventory they can give to their distribution partners. This has led to us now offering one pack of diapers per family, per visit as opposed to two. Families can still get diapers from other Diaper Bank distribution partners listed below.
- Urban Ministries Durham (opens in a new tab)
Distribution of diapers: Monday/Wednesday/Friday 1-3 p.m. and Tuesday/Thursday 9-11 a.m. and 5-6:30 p.m. Families are eligible every 30 days. IDs for both the parent and children needing diapers are required for the first visit. UMD accepts almost any form of ID (birth certificate, Medicaid, social security cards, bills, medical forms, etc.). Parents receiving diapers also qualify for clothing and food which are both distributed during those hours of operation (M-Th 9-11).
- Durham Community Food Pantry (opens in a new tab)
Durham County Residents (or those living in Alamance, Caswell, Chatham, Granville, Orange, Person, Vance, or Warren Counties) may receive diapers once a month. Distribution of diapers: Mondays through Thursdays 10 a.m.-2 p.m. and Wednesdays 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Families are eligible to receive diapers once a month. Parents receiving diapers can also pick up food boxes during distributions Wednesday from 10am-1pm and 5pm-7pm as well as Thursday from 10am-1pm.
Community Partner Agencies
Durham County Community Partner Agencies providing diapers, feminine hygiene products, and/or adult incontinence supplies for clients enrolled in their programs:
- CWS-Durham (opens in a new tab)
- Duke Family Medicine & Duke Outpatient Clinic (opens in a new tab)
- Duke Family Care Program (opens in a new tab)
- Durham Center for Senior Life (opens in a new tab)
- Durham Connects (opens in a new tab)
- Durham County Dept. of Public Health: Pregnancy Care Management (opens in a new tab)
- Durham Early Head Start (opens in a new tab)
- Durham First in Families (opens in a new tab)
- East Durham Children’s Initiative (opens in a new tab)
- Families Moving Forward (opens in a new tab)
- Healthy Families Durham (opens in a new tab)
- Lincoln Community Health Center (opens in a new tab)
- REAL Durham: End Poverty Durham (opens in a new tab)
State and National Resources
Access trusted parenting, health, and child development information from across North Carolina and the U.S. These evidence-based resources provide guidance, education, and connection for families everywhere.
- Alliance Health (opens in a new tab)
Alliance Health is a Local Management Entity-Managed Care Organization serving people in North Carolina’s Durham, Wake, Cumberland and Johnston counties. Alliance offers treatment and support for mental illness, substance use disorders and intellectual/developmental disabilities.
- Children’s Developmental Services Agencies (opens in a new tab)
Local CDSAs are available to help families, caregivers and professionals serve children with special needs through its Infant Toddler Program.
- Child Care Services Association (opens in a new tab)
CCSA works to ensure affordable, accessible and high-quality child care for all families through research, services and advocacy.
- El Centro Hispano (opens in a new tab)
El Centro Hispano is a Latino nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening the community, building bridges, and advocating for equity and inclusion for Hispanics/Latinos in the Triangle Area of North Carolina.
- La Leche League (opens in a new tab)
La Leche League helps mothers worldwide to breastfeed through mother-to-mother support, encouragement, information and education, and promotes a better understanding of breastfeeding as an important element in the healthy development of the baby and mother.
- North Carolina Pre-K (opens in a new tab)
The North Carolina Pre-K Program is designed to provide high-quality educational experiences to enhance school readiness for eligible four-year-old children.
- Safe Kids Worldwide (opens in a new tab)
Safe Kids Worldwide is a global nonprofit dedicated to protecting kids from preventable injuries, the number one cause of death to children in the United States and a global epidemic around the world.
- The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) (opens in a new tab)
The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for WIC provides federal grants to states for supplemental foods, health care referrals and nutrition education for low-income pregnant, breastfeeding and non-breastfeeding postpartum women, as well as infants and children up to age five who are found to be at nutritional risk.