Featured Charitable Partner: Susie Q Kids, 501(c) Michigan Nonprofit
Comfort bags for Southeast Michigan children coming to The Discovery Center hands-on museum
Susie Q’s Kids was started in honor of Susan McBride (Susie Q), a special young lady who loved kids, giving back, and living everyday to it’s 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, her positivity, and her unfailing desire to assist others. Susie made a difference in the lives of those she touched.
Through this program, we can keep her vision alive! Join us as we help those in need of assistance with comfort items, inspirational support, and by letting them know that people like YOU, your FAMILY and your EMPLOYEES care.
Susie Q’s Kids is committed to aiding emotionally, physically, and mentally challenged children and young adults. All kids need comfort. Imagine the smile as the kids we help find comfort in the contents of our special bags:
- Foster kids adapt to their new life
- Sick kids battle illness with a smile
- Kids in shelters find safety and consistency
- Grieving kids cope with loss and grief
- Trafficked and bullied kids find allies
- Suicidal kids find hope to continue on
Your business can help children through the distribution of our life-impacting comfort bags provided to the cause of your choice.
Causes We Support
Foster Services: Our bags help children taken from their homes and placed into foster care.
Hospitals: Our bags provide smiles and fun as children fight their medical battles.
Women’s Shelters: Our bags provide personal and comfort items to help kids and mothers.
Grief Counseling: Our bags offer comfort to those experiencing grief and loss.
Suicide, Bullying & Trafficking: Our bags help support kids bullied, exploited, and suicidal.
What’s a Comfort Bag?
We create comfort bags custom tailored for non-profits, and plan to grow our commitment to children and young adults.
Comfort bags may include:
- Personal hygiene products
- Blankets and stuffed animals
- Coloring, art and craft supplies
- Playdoh, puzzles and Lego kits
- Journals, writing and reading books
- Inspirational and educational items
Dr. Mary Welsh took her love for her daughter Susie Q, her daughter’s passion for life and aiding others, and her 20 plus years of business consulting, Human Resources experience and college teaching to start her writing career and launch this non-profit. Dr. Mary is a Senior Certified Human Resources Professional, and has been recognized for her outstanding work in her field.
She was recently awarded Executive Human Resources Champion of the Year 2018 by Human Resources Organization Today. She hopes to bring an avenue for businesses to support non-profits dedicated to aiding children and young adults, brightening the lives of others and making a difference “One Bag at a Time.”
Join us as the Discovery Center teams up with local nonprofit Susie Q’s Kids to deliver comfort bags to local nonprofits for distribution to children in local hospitals, shelters, foster homes, and those grieving loss of loved ones. Together we can make a difference!
Put a life-impacting comfort bag into the hand of a local southeast Michigan child for only $30/bag.
The Discovery Center children’s museum of Macomb announces partnership with local nonprofit Susie Q’s Kids to supply life-impacting comfort bags for children in Southeast Michigan. See how your business or organization can support local nonprofits and sponsor comfort bags for kids in local hospitals, shelters, foster care, and grieving by partnering with the Discovery Center during our Healthy Michigan family wellness initiative running April to December 2021.
