Angels’ Place to close Brookline location

Angels’ Place, a nonprofit that provides childcare and other supports for single parents who are students, is closing its facility in Brookline effective July 1.

Two other facilities in Swissvale and the North Side will continue to operate, said Beth Banas, executive director of the organization.

“We’re still committed to serve all of our families. Recently, we’ve found we could serve the Pittsburgh community more effectively from two sites rather than three,” she said.

A number of families who attend the Brookline location have agreed to move to other sites and all six employees there have been offered jobs at the other two locations.

Founded in 1984 in the basement of a Brookline church, Angels’ Place offers services to single parents and their children who meet low-income guidelines. The parents are fulltime students who may be enrolled in high school, college, and other post-secondary educational programs.

Programming includes pre-school child care, parenting classes, counseling, tutoring and job placement assistance.

All of the program’s services are free, although the organization is studying the possibility of adding feebased services for working parents and expanding its hours of operation, said Ms. Banas.

In its last fiscal year, Angels’ Place received about 62 percent of funding from foundation grants and private donations. State and federal government grants accounted for about 20 percent of funding.

According to its most recent federal tax filing, the organization’s annual revenue was $1.1 million.