Itasca Area crisis Nursery, a community-based program that provides emergency short-term care for children ages birth to 12. "We've survived budget cuts and losses in state funding...we're able to provide quality services and a sustainable program, and we're keeping the integrity of families through it all," said Becky Boelter, Crisis and Homelessness Prevention Coordinator.
Parents are allowed to utilize the Crisis Nursery for no fee, for up to 72 hours at a time, any time of the day or night including weekends and holidays. Children are temporarily placed in licensed foster-care homes (called shelter homes) or with licensed daycare providers.
Over the Crisis Nursery's 10 year history, there have been 46 shelter home providers and 26 day-care providers, plus 40 volunteers who have given more than 70,000 hours of their time to answering phones for the 24-hour crisis line.
Ami, a Crisis Nursery participant, summed up the service she and her husband, Bryan received last year, "They're lifesavers, it saved us quite a few times. There could have been jobs lost."
The Open House will be held April 29 from 5-7 p.m. at the Itasca Resource Center. Call Becky Boelter at 327-8652 for more information. The public is invited to attend.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
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