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Friday, December 7, 2012

Help 500 Area Families with St. Louis Crisis Nursery's Holiday Hearts Program

As part of the program, children in need create a wish list and people can sponsor children for Christmas.

St. Louis Crisis Nursery has been in the Greater St. Louis Area 26 years. The organization is an independent, not-for-profit agency funded by donations and committed to preventing child abuse and neglect by providing short-term, emergency shelter for children, birth through age 12, whose families are faced with emergencies or who are in crisis. The nursery's managers are looking for community members to help out a child this year via the group's Holiday Hearts program. As of Dec. 6, only 35 families out of 500 still need to be adopted for the holidays, according to the Crisis Nursery twitter feed. As part of the program children in need create a wish list and people can sponsor children for Christmas. "Our goal is to not have any children …

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Patch Volunteers Today at St. Louis Crisis Nursery

We'll be in St. Charles all day Thursday with the St. Louis Crisis Nursery working with children and helping with household chores.

You can't truly serve a community unless you provide the help it needs most, which is why giving back is so important to us here at Patch. We volunteer as part of our coverage with a program called "Give 5," through which we donate advertising space to charitable organizations and contribute our own time as volunteers. Today, ten of our intrepid reporters and editors will volunteer their time at the St. Louis Crisis Nursery in St. Charles. We'll hold and change babies, toss the ball around with the bigger kids and help the social workers on staff to manage their daily chores. The Crisis Nursery houses, feeds, clothes and cares for children whose parents or guardians are temporarily unable to do so. They are coming from crisis, and the …

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Bryanna Hampton

2:23 pm on Thursday, November 15, 2012

I had a great morning helping out today. Excited to see and hear how the Crisis Nursery makes a difference, especially this holiday season!   more ›

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