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Find Your Pantry
Find Your Pantry, a community initiative created and supported by Justice Necessary, helps you find the nearest pantry for food, period products, hygiene products, and more. Necessary essentials should never be out of reach.
Accessing Food Resources: SNAP, WIC, and Beyond
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) helps low-income households purchase food. Families and individuals can receive a monthly benefit to buy healthy food. They can double their benefits value by shopping at participating vendors that support the Double Up Food Bucks program.
211 Colorado: Basic Needs and Financial Assistance
Explore 211 Colorado for comprehensive support services, including food, housing, utility assistance, and financial aid. Connect with resources to help meet essential needs and promote financial stability for individuals and families across Colorado.
Alliance for Period Supplies
A national organization with allied programs in Colorado, working to ensure individuals have access to essential period products.
America’s Unspoken Hygiene Crisis by The Century Foundation
Colorado Dept. of Public Health and Environment: Menstrual Hygiene Products Accessibility Grant Program ‘21-’22
Diaper Need is Associated with Pediatric Care Use: An Analysis of a Nationally Representative Sample of Parents of Young Children
Diaper Need is Associated with the Risk for Food Insecurity in a Statewide Sample of Participants in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)
End Hygiene Poverty by In Kind Direct
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- Basic-needs
211 Colorado: Basic Needs and Financial Assistance
Explore 211 Colorado for comprehensive support services, including food, housing, utility assistance, and financial aid. Connect with resources to help meet essential needs and promote financial stability for individuals and families across Colorado.
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- Federal Assistance
- Basic-needs
Accessing Food Resources: SNAP, WIC, and Beyond
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) helps low-income households purchase food. Families and individuals can receive a monthly benefit to buy healthy food. They can double their benefits value by shopping at participating vendors that support the Double Up Food Bucks program.
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- Organization
- Period Poverty
Alliance for Period Supplies
A national organization with allied programs in Colorado, working to ensure individuals have access to essential period products.
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- Article
- Hygiene Poverty
America’s Unspoken Hygiene Crisis by The Century Foundation
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- Article
- Period Poverty
Colorado Dept. of Public Health and Environment: Menstrual Hygiene Products Accessibility Grant Program ‘21-’22
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- Peer-Reviewed Article
- Diaper Need
Diaper Need is Associated with Pediatric Care Use: An Analysis of a Nationally Representative Sample of Parents of Young Children
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- Peer-Reviewed Article
- Diaper Need
Diaper Need is Associated with the Risk for Food Insecurity in a Statewide Sample of Participants in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)
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- Article
- Hygiene Poverty
End Hygiene Poverty by In Kind Direct
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- Organization
- Basic-needs
Find Your Pantry
Find Your Pantry, a community initiative created and supported by Justice Necessary, helps you find the nearest pantry for food, period products, hygiene products, and more. Necessary essentials should never be out of reach.
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Our Education and Resources page provides a collection of relevant terminology, FAQs, links to other websites, and educational information pertaining to hygiene and period poverty that can provide additional information and assistance. We are constantly updating our resource library to ensure that you have access to the latest and most relevant information.*
*We make every effort to ensure the accuracy of the information provided on our website. However, we rely on external government agency websites for some of the data and we cannot guarantee its accuracy. Please verify any information with the appropriate agency before making any decisions.
