Together, families and the community are responsible for our children.

The Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery (www.crisisnursery.org) provides temporary child care and support services for families in our community. The Crisis Nursery works on a foundation that abuse and neglect are 100% preventable, and no child ever needs to suffer. Also, no parent plans to hurt their child. But when an adult experiences extreme stress - the stress of poverty, of hunger, of an inability to provide their family with life's most basic necessities - often one more crisis can bring that parent to a critical boiling point, and bring harm upon a child.

This facility is a warm, loving, and safe place where kids get to be kids while their parents take care of a family emergency. The Nursery gives parents a supportive, safe, and non-shaming environment in which to ask for help. In addition, families are provided with immediate and long-term support in the form of family services, child care and on-site medical care.

Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery was the first and remains the only residential crisis nursery in Minnesota. But in recent years, this facility has suffered from major budget cuts. While demand for such facilities across the state has increased, state funding for this program has been reduced by 27 percent. The Crisis Nursery has been forced a reduce many of their critical community support programs.

The Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery and the families of our community need our help. Your generosity can have a direct impact on the children who benefit from the Nursery’s services. This facility depends on donors for items large and small. From diapers and formula, to blankets, teethers, and everyday toys and art supplies. Your gift can ease the suffering of a family in need.

Please donate to the Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery. The following link will take you to a Crisis Nursery Gift Registry where you can donate toys and supplies needed by this vital facility.

Crisis Nursery Gift Registry - Help Us Help Kids

Behind all of the statistics and stories are real families and real children.

And thank you, thank you, THANK YOU to the Crisis Nursery for all that you do……