ICARE-PJS I Can Always Rest Easy PJs A Nonprofit Charity Awareness Organization & Cause increasing awareness of fire safety and child sleepwear standards with an appropriate fitting pajamas & teddy bear distribution program. October 11, 2013 Re: Sponsors, Partners and Cause Support Dear Donor: ICARE-PJS, a nonprofit organization increasing awareness of fire safety and child sleepwear standards with a snug- fitting pajamas & teddy bear distribution program, is seeking partners, sponsorship, donations and gifts of love to distribute kid’s snug fitting PJs and Teddy Bears; thereby, increasing awareness of child sleepwear standards, and decreasing risk of fire injury. Parents typically buy garments one size larger than the age of their children. The Consumer Product Safety Commission amended the Flammable Fabrics Act Children’s Sleepwear (Sizes 0–6x, 7–14) Flammability Standards to include standards for appropriate fitting sleepwear. Sleepwear is defined as nightgowns, pajamas or robes intended to be worn primarily for sleeping or activities related to sleeping, A ‘tight-fitting garment’’ is specified by maximum dimensions for the following parts of the clothing: chest, waist, seat, upper arm, thigh, wrist, and ankle. It is required that an exempted tight-fitting garment must be labeled to indicate its size (The Consumer Product Safety Commission, 2013). Today, despite major retail child garment suppliers, like Macy’s, requiring salespersons to point out labels to parents indicating sizes and flame retardation disclosures, urban community telephone poles are covered with memorial teddy bears. Parents need awareness education and access to appropriate sleep garments, as studies indicate, snug- fitting PJs reduce risk of fire injury. ICARE-PJS’s purpose is to increase awareness of appropriate fitting kid’s pajamas using a distribution program. Our goal is to collect year round donations, and conduct awareness/ fund raising campaigns. Kindly, determine how you may participate. If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at ICARE-PJS@yahoo.com. Thanks for your willingness to be a part of our mission. “Teddy Bears belong in a well - child’s heart and not on poles” (Towanda Stewart, MSN, BSN, RN, 2013) Thanks, ICARE-PJS Inc.

1. SNUG- FITTING PAJAMA & TEDDY
BEAR AWARENESS PROGRAM
“Snuggling with T”
ICAREPJS INC.
501 (3) C Non profit Corporation
Bloomington, Indiana 47401
812.606.6794
ICAREPJS@YAHOO.COM

3. Parents typically buy garments one size
LARGER
than the age of their
children.

4. The fire safety risk is “a loose sleeve or pant
cuff catching an open flame,
such as a candle” or obstruction
for safe maneuvers during an
actual fire.
(http://www.pediatricsafety.net/2009/10/childrens-pajamas-and-flameretardants/#sthash.QIU5zlfI.dpuf)

5. Amended the Flammable Fabrics Act
Children’s Sleepwear (Sizes 0–6x, 7–14)
The Consumer Product Safety Commission
Flammability Standards to include standards
for appropriate
fitting sleepwear .

6. Sleepwear is defined as nightgowns, pajamas or robes or
clothing intended to be worn primarily for sleeping or
activities related to sleeping, excluding diapers and
underwear (The Consumer Product Safety Commission, 2013).

7. The proposed amendments defined the term „„tightfitting garment‟‟ by specifying maximum dimensions for
the following parts of the garment:
chest, waist, seat, upper arm, thigh,
wrist, and ankle. “
(The Consumer Product Safety Commission, 2013)

8. “The proposed amendments also required that an
exempted tight-fitting garment must be labeled to
indicate its size.”
(The Consumer Product Safety Commission, 1996)

9. ICAREPJS
Pajama Program
PROBLEM

10. To increase awareness of appropriate fitting kid‟s
pajamas using a distribution program.

11. Distribute kid‟s snug fitting PJs and Teddy Bears
to increase awareness of child sleepwear standards thus
decreasing risk of fire injury.

12.  Collect donations year round
 Sponsors
Teddy Bear Shops
 Retail Suppliers of Child Pajamas
 Child Pajama Manufactures
 Child Garment Distributers
 Awareness & fund raising campaigns


13. “Snuggling with T”

14. “T
eddy Bears belong in a well - child’s
heart and not on poles
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ICARE-PJS
“Snuggling with T”