Crisis Nursery
Childhaven's Crisis Nursery, which offers parents up to 72 hours of emergency overnight child care, is one of roughly 70 such nurseries in the United States. (There are eight in Washington state.) Parents usually place their children in the Crisis Nursery through a voluntary and confidential process. The program serves children up to 7 years old and relies on foster families for overnight care and a North Seattle day-care center for daytime placement. Parents use the Crisis Nursery for a wide variety of reasons, including sleep deprivation, postpartum depression, or even participation in an in-patient chemical dependency treatment program. (Children of parents in drug treatment may receive Crisis Nursery care for as long as 30 days.)
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