San Francisco, CA…Ahead of Mother’s Day, Governor Gavin Newsom announced today that the state is partnering with Baby2Baby, a leading national nonprofit organization headquartered in California, to launch a first-in-the-nation program to provide free diapers to all new babies born in California. Leveraging the bulk purchasing power of the state, this new effort known as Golden State Start will distribute high-quality, mass-produced diapers directly to families through participating hospitals statewide.
As part of a broader affordability strategy – including CalRx – the Newsom administration is also exploring opportunities to lower the cost of diapers by challenging high prices from major brands.
California is taking on the cost of raising a family head-on — delivering free school meals, making preschool free for every four-year-old, expanding after-school programs, and now making sure parents leave the hospital with the basics their newborn needs. Every baby born in California deserves a healthy start in life – and that means making sure parents have the basics they need from day one.
Governor Gavin Newsom
California families deserve to feel supported during one of life’s more exciting, yet vulnerable transitions. Golden State Start will deliver immediate relief, allowing parents to focus on what matters most – caring for their newborn. Together with Baby2Baby, we can ease the financial burden on California parents while supporting healthier outcomes for babies and their mothers.
First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom
Beginning this summer, every newborn delivered in a participating California hospital will receive 400 diapers at no cost to the family. Hospitals will provide diapers to families at the time of discharge, ensuring parents leave the hospital with an immediate supply of high-quality diapers tailored to newborn needs.
The goal of the program is to ease financial strain for families, reduce difficult trade-offs between diapers and other essentials, and support infant health by helping parents maintain an adequate supply of clean diapers.
“The first days at home with a newborn should be focused on the love, connection, and joy of an expanded family, not stress about affording diapers,” said Kim Johnson, Secretary of the California Health & Human Services Agency. “This program helps ensure families can begin that journey with greater stability and peace of mind.”
For the first year of the program, CalRx and Baby2Baby will prioritize hospitals that serve large numbers of Medi-Cal patients so that low-income families benefit early from the program, with plans to scale across additional hospitals and birthing centers over time.
The diapers distributed are manufactured for Baby2Baby and will be co-labeled with the state’s program name, Golden State Start, to reflect California’s commitment to bringing affordable diapers to Californians.
“Diapers are at the core of our mission at Baby2Baby as a shocking one in two families in this country struggles to afford them,” said Baby2Baby Co-CEOs Norah Weinstein and Kelly Sawyer Patricof. “We are incredibly grateful to Governor Newsom for his ongoing commitment to combating diaper needs in California and could not be prouder to partner on this historic initiative that will support moms and babies at their most vulnerable time.”
Baby2Baby is a nonprofit organization that provides diapers and other critical items to children in need, serving more than one million children across all 50 states. The organization has distributed over half a billion items over the past 15 years to children in homeless shelters, domestic violence programs, foster care, hospitals, and school districts as well as children who have lost everything in the wake of disaster.
Through their existing statewide partnerships with hospitals, community-based organizations, and Welcome Baby programs, Baby2Baby will manage diaper procurement, warehousing, and hospital distribution of the Golden State Start program, providing diapers for newborns in all regions of the state.
This initiative is a core part of Governor Newsom’s broader CalRx commitment, in partnership with the Legislature, to make California more affordable and ensure families have access to the basic support they need to thrive. The CalRx diapers announcement builds on the successes of other CalRx initiatives, like CalRx Naloxone Access Initiative and CalRx Insulin, and complements California’s existing investments in early learning, nutrition, and health coverage – reflecting a commitment to help families meet basic needs from the start.
Governor Newsom Launches Program Providing Free Diapers for All New Parents added by admin on
View all posts by admin →
Newsom go shit in your hard hat!
I’d eat out of Gavin’s diaper, Adam Fairy
And his wife gets the money. Just evil
FREE!! FREE!!!FREEEEEE!!!
Problem is, they are not free. Someone is paying for all (that cash to go to Newsom’s “partner” / wife) those diapers. Ain’t nothin’ in this world for free. Enjoy your “free” China diapers!
China diapers give me a rash, Adam Fairy.
China Depends diapers give me a rash, Adam Fairy.
sure gas is headed to $8/gallon but at least cornell got rid of their gender studies classes. or at least i think they did, i haven’t checked and if im being honest i wouldnt really know if they had or hadnt because it doesnt affect me but it makes $8/gallon gas all worth it
Dementia don needs a supply.
His diaper fills a lot faster now that Cuba, Iran are not obeying his command.
He looks worse each day how much longer can this sorry act of stupidity be allowed to go on?
How much more damage to Americans, and the world/
Republicans stand up.
^^True Dat!! You beat me to the punch.
TACO Don is shitting his britches purt’ regular now that Iran is telling him to stick it, Cuba say phuck off, and he’s going to ‘Ghina with his tail tucked between his fat sticky white thighs.
Best stock up with free pampers Don before you hit the Orient Express!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Dementia don’s social media lost $400 million, and will face bankruptcy. Many businesses he had went bankrupt including a casino.
America is next with a projected $40 trillion Fed when his term is over.
All the OMB states is from Republican tax cuts.
Lets not waste time and recount all of Trump’s failed business ventures. Lets just say they are “multiple”, “costly”, “re-current”.
His latest????
The United States of America economy.
Has anyone ever told you were full of Shit?
Been Cornholed Lately?
Trump now says Iran’s response to his latest plan is “stupid”.
Youknow whats stupid?
The leader of one nation telling another nation it is at war with that it is “stupid”.
Especially when they are hard core terrorists, stubborn, savvy.
So bottom line? Trump stupidly calling Iran’s leaders stupid is really stupid.
But then again, what do we expect out of TACO boy, Don the Con, a low IQ POTUS.
And Calatrumplicans eat his shit up. Hook, line and sinker. They are his PERFECT MAGA cult members.
Oh Really!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Diaper don today-Ba Ba Ba Ba Ba Ba he has lost it, as well as his base.
Sheeple.
Your diaper is Full.
Newsom’s Diaper Gate
Sir Sir …. Sir WAKE THE FUCK UP …. Worthless pile of shit
Wake him up. It’s time for his cognitive test
After inflation reports of this morning Trump will be needing to change his Depend!!
Those numbers made him shit his………………..
A question for all Trump I-Phone buyers.
Did you get your gold Trump phone yet?? You know, the one that Don Jr., and Eric sold you? You know the one you put a $100 deposit on? The deposit that states in fine print deposit “may not be refunded” nor the phone “made in the USA”?
Apparently 5.9 million dollars of “deposits” were put down, not one phone has been delivered, not one deposit refunded.
No word on when, if ever, the phone will be produced. But the “Trump Family” is another 5.9 million bucks richer by one of their latest scamming, conning of the Americian(read MAGA base) consumer.
How stupid can you people be? How many more times can you be THAT stupid? How many gold phones did YOU order?
I own two pairs of his Golden Tennis Shoes.