BY KAYLEIGH FREEMAN

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OPELIKA – BigHouse Foundation, a nonprofit organization serving foster and adoptive families since 2009, is taking steps toward opening Little House Preschool, an early development child care service for foster children.

Little House’s main initiative is to provide child care to foster children ages zero to five, while simultaneously offering trauma-informed care, counseling services and other developmental support.

“Our kids are coming in with experiences of trauma, loss and grief, and they’re expressing that even as tiny babies, toddlers and preschoolers,” said Micah Melnick, founder and executive director of BigHouse Foundation. “They’re expressing that hurt and pain, so what we want to do is create Little House, which is a preschool that has tra

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