Child Passenger Safety
Car Seat Installation Services
Twinkle Twinkle Little Store sponsors and has many Certified Child Passenger Safety Technicians (CPSTs) available at the store to assist you with identifying the correct car seat for your family, as well as teaching you how to properly install a car seat and ensuring it is properly installed. Car Seat Installations of Personal Car Seats are available for free however appointments are required. This is to ensure that there is a tech available to assist you. Please schedule your appointment HERE. Appointments are not required for the installation of our rental car seats.
Car Seat Installations from Twinkle are Free But Tips are Always Appreciated.
Our certifications are provided by the National Child Passenger Safety Certification program of Safe Kids Worldwide, and certifications can be found here. This program that we offer to all actually incurs costs to Twinkle Twinkle Little Store of over $15,000 every year to fund, including but not limited to training, course fees, community events and certification. If you appreciate this service we are able to offer, please consider donating to our Twinkle Outreach Program.
Twinkle Outreach
Twinkle Outreach
For families in need, we have a Twinkle Outreach Giving Program. We are able to redistribute children’s clothing and baby gear to those in need thanks to the generous donations of our customers.
Anyone can come in to Twinkle Twinkle Little Store and pick up an Outreach application. Fill out the application with as much info as possible on your needs and give it to a Twinkle employee. A voucher will be given to the applicant for them to redeem for items in our store.
We are always accepting donations to Twinkle Outreach and they can be dropped off anytime during store hours. Thank you to everyone who supports and shares in Twinkle Outreach, following our mission of local moms helping local moms.
Donations to To Twinkle Outreach
Where do your donations go?
Twinkle Outreach is the philanthropic department of Twinkle Twinkle Little Store. Your donations will go to fund and serve local families and local organizations.
Thousands of items went directly to hundreds of local families on a needs basis. Families apply for assistance and are provided clothing, gear, toys, formula, diapers and whatever other goods specifically for their families with what we may have available via our Twinkle Outreach Giveaways and on an individual basis.
Thousands of dollars of the monetary funds raised were used to support local non-profits. Items that can be repaired or cleaned up are sold to raise money. Cash donations were given to groups including but not limited to:
- All Hands and Hearts
- Bear’s Den
- Collier County Schools
- Collier CPR
- Dave Thomas Foundation
- Doctors Without Borders
- Food For Soul
- Foundation for the Developmentally Disabled
- Gabriel House Ft. Myers
- GEM Foundation
- Girls On The Run Collier County
- Headstrong
- Harvest Ministry
- Humane Society Naples
- Immokalee Friendship House
- JDRF Foundation
- Joyful Heart Foundation
- Living With Change Foundation
- Love A Child
- Make A Wish Foundation
- More Than Me
- National Aleopecia Areata Foundation
- Osteogenesis Imperfecta Foundation
- PATH
- Patty Brisben Foundation
- PBS Kids SWFL
- Prince's Trust
- Project Help
- Red Cross
- Ronald Mc Donald House
- Safe Kids of SWFL
- Samaritan's Purse
- Semper Fi Fund
- Shriner's
- Shy Wolf Sanctuary
- Special Olympics
- St Jude Children’s Hospital
- St Matthew's House
- St Vincent de Paul's
- WGCU
Tens of thousands worth of in kind items were given to other local charities and groups based on their needs so that they can distribute to the community. Groups including but not limited to:
- Abused Women’s Shelter
- Back To School – Confident Kids of Collier
- Blue Crayons
- CHEACC
- Children’s Advocacy Center
- Collier County Parks Little Free Libraries
- Collier Pregnancy Center
- Collier Pregnancy Resources
- Collier Pregnancy Services
- Confident Kids of Collier
- N.F.D.
- Eden Schools
- Family to Family
- Girl Scouts
- Grace Center Foundation
- Grace Place
- Gulf Coast Charter Association
- Harvest Ministry
- Head Start Collier
- Health Department
- Healthy Start
- Helps Outreach
- Hope for Haiti
- Humane Society
- Immokalee Friendship House
- Immokalee Summer Program
- Justin’s Place
- Lifeline Family Center
- Living Word Family Church
- Manatee Elementary School
- Mike Davis Elementary School
- Newborns In Need of Collier County
- Osceola Elementary School
- Palmetto Elementary School
- Pay It Forward
- Place of Hope
- Poinciana Elementary School
- Pregnancy Resource Center
- Sabal Palm Elementary School
- Sea Gate Elementary School
- St Matthews House
- Sunlight Home
- Treat a Teacher
- Way F.M.
- Youth Haven
- Yuletide Gardens
Much of the monetary funds raised are used to support Twinkle Twinkle Little Store’s free community programs, such as free Car Seat Safety Checks & Events provided by our Certified Child Safety Technicians. Funds pay for CPST certification and renewal and CPR certification. Each year alone we provide over 2,700 car seat installation and safety checks.