QuickTrip awards $20,000 grant to the Saint Louis Crisis Nursery
July 22, 2010
ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI – QuickTrip has awarded a $20,000 grant to the Saint Louis Crisis Nursery to support its Family Empowerment Program, which provides home and community-based services for families. The grant will help fund family empowerment counseling, home visits, community outreach, parent education groups and the Family Emergency Fund, which provides financial assistance in a crisis for shelter, utilities, food and medication.
The Crisis Nursery, committed to the prevention of child abuse and neglect, is an independent, not-for-profit agency that provides a short-term, safe haven for children, birth through age 12, whose families are faced with an emergency or crisis. Located at five sites throughout the greater St. Louis, St. Charles, Southern Illinois and surrounding regions, the Crisis Nursery provides care 24-hours a day, 365 days a year. Celebrating its 24th year of caring for children, Crisis Nursery has been a safe haven to more than 59,000 children, and has provided support and counseling to more than 78,000 families. For details, call (314) 292-5770 or visit www.crisisnurserykids.org. For the Saint Louis Crisis Nursery 24-hour helpline, call (314) 768-3201. For the Saint Charles Crisis Nursery 24-hour helpline, call (636) 947-0600.
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