LOUISVILLE, Ky. (KT) – Lifehouse Maternity Home is meeting a huge need for the pregnant and parenting women finding hope and healing through the program: the support of childcare.
Dolli Neikirk, CEO of Lifehouse, said one of the expectations of the program is that participants work or go to school. But finding reliable childcare is an obstacle to stable employment–a necessary step toward women becoming self-supporting.
“Finding childcare that not only was convenient to work or school, had space for a child of their age and took childcare vouchers was becoming like a needle in a haystack,” Neikirk explained. “Throw in there a woman who doesn’t have a car, so she’s relying on bus transportation, and then it’s just exponentially complicated.”…