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It's Not a Question of Intent
Nearly 8,000 children were abused and neglected in Minnesota last year. Thirty-four sustained life-threatening injuries and 14 died. But abuse and neglect are 100% preventable, and no child ever needs to suffer.
No parent plans to abuse or neglect their children. All parents want their children to thrive. But when a parent 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.
A Safe Place
Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery 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.
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