Period products are a necessity.
Get them stockedPicking up where you left off.
We'll find contact info for key decision-makers at your school and check if your state already requires free products.
School not in the list (middle school, private, outside the US)?
Go and check every bathroom
Walk three or four bathrooms and write down, for each one:
- Is there a dispenser or a basket at all?
- Is there anything in it right now? Pads, tampons, or both?
- Is it free, or does it take coins?
- Is there one in the all-gender or accessible bathroom too?
- What's the closest place you'd actually get one? (nurse, office, a friend)
You want a sentence like “five of six bathrooms have a dispenser, and zero of them had anything in it.” That sentence gets a supply order written. “There are never any” doesn't. Come back and pick whichever of the four above matches what you found.
Survey your friends so you can prove you have a problem. It asks three things: how often the bathrooms actually have products, whether the conditions make it harder to focus, and whether stocking them would help. Forty answers turns a favor into a budget line.
It opens in Google Forms as your copy, under your account. Nothing you collect comes to us, and responses are anonymous unless you change that. Hit Send inside Forms to get the link you'll share in the next step.
Group chats, your story, the people you sit with at lunch. Everyone, not just people who get periods — the numbers land harder when the whole school agrees.
Paste your form link where the message says to. 20 responses is enough to argue with; more is better.
These are the plays that work for your situation. Do more than one — they stack.
Optional, later Get the custodians on your side
You don't need this to send the emails above. You will want it the week the dispensers get installed, because custodians are who restocks them, and a dispenser nobody refills is the situation you started in.
No script needed. First time you pass one: “Hey, how are ya?” Second time, learn their name. Third time, ask:
- Do they already stock any period products, and who orders them?
- How often do the bathrooms get checked and refilled?
- Is it a supply budget thing or a schedule thing when a dispenser runs out?
- What would make refilling one more thing on their round, not a chore?
Whatever they say goes straight into your follow-up emails: “custodial staff told me they're happy to refill if the products are on the order” is the sentence that closes this.
You emailed, and weeks went by. The board is where this stops being a thing your principal can sit on: public comment goes in the minutes, and the minutes are public forever. What you need is your survey numbers, the dates you emailed people, and two minutes at the microphone.
It opens as a printable page with your survey numbers, what the law says, your ask, who you've already contacted, and where the products can come from for free. Save it as a PDF: that's the handout for board members and the attachment on the follow-up email.
Still nothing? Reach out to us: we can help with funding, navigating school politics, and changing school culture.
there are no pads or tampons in our bathrooms and i'm doing something about it
this is a 1 minute anonymous survey about period products at our school. i'm taking the results to admin, and if they don't do anything, to the school board.
[paste your form link]
fill it out even if you don't get a period. every response is one more reason they can't say it's just me asking.
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