Are you raising a family, and feel overwhelmed or that you can't take it anymore?

There is an answer.

Ruth Todd shows us in this week's Family Now report.

Crisis nurseries are cropping up along the Wasatch front. They are places you can take your children in time of emergency, or maybe even when you need time to cool off.

Alice Lara is raising her three grandsons ages 9, 8, and 5. Sometimes she needs a break and brings them here, to Family Support Center's Crisis Nursery, so she can take a break.

"Well I'll put it this way," she says. "I'm a grandma. I'm going on 52-years old, and they've got energy like you wouldn't believe it. They run me down very bad. That's why I end up over here, because I can't keep up with them."

Alice is helping her family by using the Crisis Nursery, but there are people out there who are not.

"We know there are families in crisis out there, but they are not calling us. Why?" asks the Director of the Child Crisis Nursery, Greta Tautu-Erickson. She thinks people don't know about the nursery and how it can help them.

"The crisis nursery is a place parents can bring their children if they feel overwhelmed, if they feel that they're losing control and they are about to hurt their children and they have no one else to turn to."

The Child Crisis Nursery is open 24-hours, every day of the year, with trained workers and volunteers who help out families in times of need.

They take children whose parents are invovled in mental health crisis, family violence, drug and/or alcohol abuse, or sickness.

The Crisis nursery is also open to children at risk for neglect, abuse, or abandonment.

"We even offer counseling, parenting classes, or refer them to other services that might be able to help them, because the children are here through no fault of their own. Our main goal is to strenthen families, and we do this by educating the parents."