What's the history behind the Society? The Children's Cottage Society opened its doors as a crisis nursery back in 1986. It's our flagship program. It primarily helps families, a lot of young mothers, single mothers in the community. They're looking for support when they have no other support available to them. It might be respite support. [Example] They're going in for surgery and they need someone to take care of their children. So we'll do that for them. How did it evolve into what it is today? Since then, the cottage grew up with the city, and the nine beds that we had when we started in 1986 are now 20 located here in the new family and child centre. You also have a facility down in the southwest? That's in the Killarney area. It’s called Brenda's House. That's our family shelter; an emergency shelter to support families that are experiencing homelessness. It is for families that are transitioning. They've lost their home, or lost their j...
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