What We Do
Our Baby Bundles

For the Christ Child Society of Monterey Bay, love is the force behind “challenging poverty one child at a time”. For infants that translates into reducing new parents’ stress by providing much-needed baby essentials, honoring each new baby with blankets, quilts, teddy bears and other items made especially for them, and by including multiple baby board books and guidance on how to help babies acquire vocabulary words from day one. We deliver our bundles in diaper bags which mothers can use for months to come.
Our Partners:
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Natividad Medical Center
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Catholic Charities
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Siena House
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Sun Street Center’s Pueblo del Mar Family Recovery Center
Volunteer Opportunities:
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Join our Yarns & Stitches group and enjoy fellowship among knitters, crocheters and sewers
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Create and donate to our bundles blankets, caps, quilts, teddy bears, receiving blankets, sweaters and burp cloths
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Shop for deals for bundle essentials and car seats and procure with Christ Child funds
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Inventory, pack and deliver our bundles to our partner agencies



Our Early Childhood Literacy Program

Early childhood word acquisition and literacy are critical to a child’s success in school and life. Yet very few under-resourced preschoolers have adequate access to books outside of school. We have established a preschool literacy program to address this need.

We are happy to be back in the classroom! During COVID, we delivered sterilized “kits” for the teacher to provide to the preschool parents, for use at home with their child, and/or to present in the classroom. Now that we have been allowed back into the classroom, we have continued our relationship with the Pacific Grove State Funded Preschool in both their AM and PM program.
This year, we added 3 preschool classes at Martin Luther King Academy in Salinas to our program. We read a seasonal classic book to the students, create a related craft project, provide additional hands-on activities and then send each child home with that book for their home library.
Our Current Partners:
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Pacific Grove State Funded Preschool, Pacific Grove
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Martin Luther King Academy Preschool, Salinas
Our Past Partners:
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Carmel Unified School District
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Carmel Community COVID Coalition
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St. Angela Merici Preschool
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Little Bear Creek Preschool, Salinas
Volunteer Opportunities:
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Preparing Craft Kits and Activities at our Craftoramas
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Reading to Preschoolers
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Aiding with In-Classroom Lessons



Our Car Seat Program


It is a requirement for discharge of an infant from a hospital that the family have a car seat in the car in which the baby will be transported. For the lowest income families, this can mean borrowing a car seat and later travelling with the baby without protection, or getting a used car seat that may no longer be adequate to protect the baby. Until recently, Natividad with third party support provided about 30 car seats a year to families with the lowest means--and each of these families also received one of our baby bundles.
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When the third party funding for the car seats ended, the Christ Child Society determined we should fill the gap. In 2022, we are prepared to help 60 babies go home from Natividad in top of the line Graco 4-in-1 car seats installed for safety by the Salinas Fire Department before the baby's birth. This car seat will protect the baby from his or her first car ride until they age or weigh out of a car seat, saving the family from having to purchase bigger car seats as the baby grows. Each baby to receive this lasting gift will also receive one of our baby bundles.
Volunteer Opportunities:
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PIcking up Car Seats from Costco
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Delivering Car Seats to the Salinas Fire Deparment
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Committee Leadership
Our Partners:
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Natividad Medical Center
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Salinas Fire Department
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Costco Salinas