Susie Q’s Kids
Susie Q’s Kids “provides comfort bags to kids in need”. As Smile Makers, it provides comfort bags, panda bears, blankets, socks, and other essential items like hygiene, sensory, and grief kits to kids in hospitals, hospices, shelters, foster care, advocacy centers, grief centers, autism centers, schools, camps, sheriff departments, wherever there is a need.
Susie Q’s Kids addresses the mental health and well-being of kids in the community, advocates for suicide awareness and prevention, works with individuals with disabilities to create kits, works with business and youth groups in creating comfort bags, and engages ‘Kids in Helping Kids’ through self-awareness, philanthropy, and service. It provides smiles, hope, and healing.
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Susan McBride (Susie Q)
Susie Q’s Kids, Inc. was started in honor of Susan McBride (Susie Q), a special young lady who loved kids, giving back, and living every day to its fullest.
After a lifetime of medical issues, she succumbed to an infection in 2017 that ended her short life at 31 years of age. She was a treasure that touched the lives of all she met with her smile, laughter, positivity, and unfailing desire to help others. Susie made a difference in the lives of those she touched and continues to do so through this program.
She understood the value of a teddy bear, the comfort of a lap blanket, the healing properties of journaling and coloring, and she loved helping others. She was in and out of hospitals most of her adult life, she had a young friend Felicia who was a foster kid, she did bake sales and collected items for local shelters, and she loved life and laughter. We give our comfort bags to kids in hospital, health and hospice situations, foster care, shelters, and grief comfort bags to kids that are missing a loved one.
Susie’s legacy is to “comfort kids in need, one comfort bag at a time”, thus we brighten and inspire the lives of other kids in her honor.
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One hour or one day, Susie Q's Kids Inc has multiple ways for everyone to make a difference.
Upcoming Events
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Partner Programs
We're always looking for new service orgs to partner with. Together we can make a huge impact on the world.
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Hospitals and Health Centers
Shelters
Foster Care Agencies
Autistic Centers
Grieving Organizations
Kids Helped
We do it for the kids
