A letter from a Grandmother
To the staff members of The Nest,
Words can never express how thankful I am for your services. The respite care you gave to my granddaughter not only gave me a chance to obtain employment again, it also let her experience day care a little bit at a time. When I obtained custody of her she wouldn’t sleep in her own room and was my shadow.
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NAIFA Bluegrass donates hours and dollars to providing food boxes

The hands around the tables repeated their tasks like pros. Many of them had been packing 200 or more food boxes in an assembly line for years. Cans of green beans, corn, packets of gravy mix, boxes of corn bread mix and instant mashed potatoes, bread and bags of fruit—they all went into the boxes with canned ham and potatoes.
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Our Mission:
The Nest—Center for Women, Children and Families
is a local, nonprofit organization that promotes healing, stability and well-being of children and families. We do this through our four programs: Child Care, Crisis Care, Self-Help Parenting and Domestic Violence Counseling.
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We Focus On:
- Prevention of child physical and sexual abuse
- Prevention of child neglect
- Stabilization of the family unit
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We provide:
- Self-Help Parenting Program
- Domestic Violence Counseling Program
- Crisis Case Management Program
- Child Care Program
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If you know someone in need of our social services, please refer to our Resource pages for further information or to our contact information below.
We also welcome donations to support our work. Visit our Join Us pages to donate or to volunteer.
Contact us for more information:
The Nest—Center for Women, Families and Children
530 N. Limestone Street
Lexington, KY 40508
(859) 259-1974
(859) 254-9465 Fax
Email
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