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feature | healthcare for kids
feature | women in wine

FAMILY NURTURING CENTER

About half of children reported as abused or neglected are
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younger than age six, and 12 percent are under age one.
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Ashland Armory, 1420 E. Main Street Phoenix Civic Center, 220 N. Main Street, Phoenix To help these children heal, the Family Nurturing Center, a
8:30AM -1:30PM March 3 - November 24 10:00AM -2:00PM - Until February 25 relief nursery, offers the therapeutic intervention necessary
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Downtown Ashland, Oak Street Hawthorne Park, Corner of Hawthorne & E. Jackson They help families as they struggle with issues such as mental
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illness, hunger, a sudden loss of income, chronic unemploy-
ment, environmental safety, or housing issues. FNC’s core
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their core programs have a 90-percent success rate. Almost
all families who work with them have no further involve-
ment with the child welfare system. This truly reflects their
motto, “Transforming communities, one child and one fam-
ily at a time.” CEO Lisa O’Connor says they practice radical
non-judgment, accepting anyone who comes through their
door. Last year they served 600 kids and 1,300 families.

FNC also runs a farm and food program at Hanley Farm,
where they distribute about 10,000 pounds of organic pro-
Cultivating Community duce to families yearly. Along with the food, families learn
ALL YEAR LONG to farm, harvest, and cook, and often create their own home
garden. This helps support the idea that what we grow, we’re
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