Make A Child Smile Community Outreach Event

Wednesday, June 6 @ 4:50 p.m. CT
4th floor foyer

October Research, LLC and NS3 sponsor Qualia are proud to once again partner to offer the Make a Child Smile networking community outreach event. Join fellow attendees and our staff as we fill bookbags with school supplies for Saint Louis Crisis Nursery. With your help, children in crisis throughout the area will start the school year prepared and with dignity. Please take a few minutes to fill a bookbag before heading to the Opening Night Reception.

New this year! To celebrate the Make a Child Smile 10-year anniversary we want to help even more children in St. Louis start off the school year right. Contribute to the Saint Louis Crisis Nursery to increase how many school supplies and bookbags we can purchase. If you donate more than $100 by April 21, 2023, you will be listed as a supporter on signage at the event.

About Crisis Nursery

For over 36 years, the Saint Louis Crisis Nursery has been committed to preventing child abuse and neglect.

The Crisis Nursery provides a short-term, safe haven for almost 4,000 children a year, birth through age 12, whose families face an emergency caused by illness, homelessness, domestic violence, or overwhelming parental stress. Providing respite care to stressed parents in crisis can prevent child abuse.

Parents bring children to one of five Nursery sites for a short-term stay, free of charge and on a voluntary basis. While there, the children receive a medical exam, nutritious meals, trauma-informed care, and take-home necessities. In addition, parents receive crisis counseling, in-home visits, and parent education groups at one of 11 Family Empowerment Centers. The Crisis Nursery provides care 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, serving families throughout the greater St. Louis, St. Charles, Southern Illinois, and surrounding regions. The Crisis Nursery is an independent, not-for-profit agency.

Since 1986, we have served over 132,000 children. For more information, go to www.CrisisNurseryKids.org.

All funds raised make the world a safer place for our little ones.