The Baby's Breath Crisis Nursery Vision

Baby's Breath is a nonprofit 501(c) (3) organization located in a peaceful, wooded area, with ample room for playing outside and inside.

What is Crisis Nursery Care?
Crisis Nurseries are primary prevention programs for child abuse and neglect by providing a safe and nurturing environment for at-risk children. Not only are parents given much needed support during a crisis, they are offered resources to help prevent future crises. Crisis Nurseries are an effective service in the prevention of child abuse, neglect, and out of home placement.

Baby's Breath Crisis Nursery may be called when help is needed for caring for a child due to homelessness, a single parent’s sudden illness, accident, or hospital stay, domestic violence, feelings of depression, desperation or hopelessness, or any other situation that puts the child in danger of neglect or abuse.

Baby's Breath Crisis Nursery is a licensed facility that provides short term, 24-hour, non-medical, care and supervision for children who are voluntarily placed by a parent or legal guardian due to a family crisis or stressful situation for no more than 30 days.

Baby's Breath is working towards also being able to provide a day respite care program offered to parents in crisis. Examples for which the day crisis program may be appropriate are: time to get restraining orders, look for housing, go for job interviews, attend counseling or deal with unexpected crisis when the child would otherwise not be in a safe environment.

Studies have found the following in families who use Crisis Nurseries:

• A significaint decrease in child maltreatment reports
• Reduction in overall family stress
• Caregivers avoid leaving their children in unsafe or inappropriate situations
• Less utilization of out of home placements or longer-term care
• An increase in parenting capacity, family stability and improved attitudes towards their children

Currently more than twenty-three states have over forty Crisis Nurseries.