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Relief nurseries tell House committee their programs keep young children safe and seek $4.9 million in additional state funding
Summary
Raeanne Butler, executive director of Baker Relief Nursery, told the House Committee on Early Childhood and Human Services on March 6 that Oregon’s 38 relief nurseries provide trauma‑informed early education and family supports and that the network seeks $4.9 million above the governor’s recommended budget to serve about 300 more children.
Raeanne Butler, executive director of Baker Relief Nursery, told the House Committee on Early Childhood and Human Services on March 6 that Oregon’s network of relief nurseries offers therapeutic early childhood classrooms, outreach and respite care, home visiting and parent education aimed at keeping children birth through age 5 safe and reducing costly foster care. “Oregon’s 38 relief nurseries provide children birth through age 5 and their families with wrap‑around child development and parental support services to keep young children safe, strengthen families, prevent abuse, and reduce costly foster care,” Butler said.
The nurseries’ model combines trauma‑informed classrooms with individualized family support, speakers said. “We help them to better understand their child, increasing…
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