(24 May 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nashville, Tennessee – 23 May 2024
1. Wide of volunteers at Nashville Diaper Connection
2. Tight on a package of Pampers
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Doug Adair, president of Nashville Diaper Connection:
"It’s harder and harder for a family that’s juggling with, you know, higher rent costs and higher food costs and diapers really take a bite out of the budget."
4. Medium of Doug Adair working in warehouse
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Doug Adair, president of Nashville Diaper Connection:
"Our, our diaper distribution has grown considerably. We’ll, we’ll distribute around 3.6, 3.7 million diapers this year."
6. Wide of diapers in a warehouse
7. Wide of diapers in a van
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Doug Adair, president of Nashville Diaper Connection:
"This is such a huge deal for the babies in Tennessee. TennCare will be providing starting late summer with TennCare member babies, 0 to 2 years of age, 100 diapers per month."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nashville, Tennessee – 24 May 2024
9. Tight on Yariela Lopez unpacking donated diapers at her home
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10. SOUNDBITE (English) Yariela Lopez, mother:
"Yes. So it made me feel more comfortable, relaxing. Like I didn’t have to worry about it because I knew this where to get them from. And whenever I didn’t know. It’s something like stressing that you can even go to… Well, for me, I can’t sleep at night thinking about how am I going to try to buy diapers for my kids, or who’s going to give me some diapers or stuff like that. So by knowing that, it made me more comfortable."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nashville, Tennessee – 23 May 2024
10. wide of volunteers wrapping up diapers for donation
11. Tight on a stack of diapers being wrapped
12. Mid on a stack of diapers next to a volunteer
STORYLINE:
Tennessee will soon become the first state in the country to offer free diapers to families enrolled in the state’s Medicaid program after receiving federal approval, state officials have confirmed.
Similarly, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has also approved extending a pilot program in Delaware that provides free diapers and wipes to postpartum parents for the first three months after giving birth.
Nashville Diaper Connection has been helping families in the Middle Tennessee area in need of diapers for more than a decade.
"It’s harder and harder for a family that’s juggling with, you know, higher rent costs and higher food costs and diapers really take a bite out of the budget," said Doug Adair, president of Nashville Diaper Connection. "So our, our diaper distribution has grown considerably. We’ll, we’ll distribute around 3.6, 3.7 million diapers this year."
He said the upcoming new program will serve so many more families than his organization can reach, but there will still be a need for diaper banks because the program will only cover a portion of diapers that families typically use. On average, newborn babies can require eight to 10 diapers a day, or around 300 a month. Toddlers can use around 150 diapers a month.
"This is such a huge deal for the babies in Tennessee," said Adair. "TennCare will be providing starting late summer with TennCare member babies, 0 to 2 years of age, 100 diapers per month."
Nashville mother Yariela Lopez has three children in diapers and started getting diapers from the diaper bank through a group called Connecting Kindness.
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