Maryville Crisis Nursery offers free emergency child care to families in crisis

ByNelia Bernabe
Staff at the Maryville Crisis Nursery, 6650 W. Irving Park Rd, watch children on April 30, 2022. The Crisis Nursery provides free short-term care for parents in distress and experiencing a crisis. Staff and volunteers protect their children, birth to age six, from abuse, neglect or trauma. Children receive round-the-clock child care for up to 72 hours for each stay from events llife events such as unemployment, parental illness or hospitalization, poverty and homelessness.(Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)

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