It was a birth of a different kind with a two-year gestation period.
“We are celebrating the birth of The Nest,” said Jenifer Blumberg, executive director, at the open house for The Nest on Thursday, Feb 25.
The Nest is a two-level pink colored home with several rooms and three bathrooms that was bought and furnished to give young pregnant women or mothers and their children a cozy place to live to help them succeed in life. Those moms will soon take up residence in the house.
The idea for The Nest started when Blumberg was the director of DOVES, a domestic violence shelter. Working at the shelter, she saw the need for a long-term home, but reading the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study about the effects of toxic and prolonged stress on the development of a child’s brain forced her into action.
“We are now better able to see what is going on in a kid’s brain under toxic stress,” she said.
[For more of this story, written by Karen Peterson, go to http://www.valleyjournal.net/A...p-young-moms-succeed]
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