With Mrs. Kingston’s leadership and commitment, the idea of a 24/7
residence to support Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) babies and educate their mothers
started to nurture. While Jill and her husband fostered newborns with NAS in addition to raising
their own three children, she began to search for more answers to the puzzle of proper care for
babies born drug-exposed. Statistics did reveal that NAS was increasing rapidly in the Miami
Valley, now considered the epicenter of opioid addiction in the US, therefore more NAS babies.
Jill’s relentless campaign for NAS support reached the US Congress. In October the Caring
Recovery for Infants and Babies Act (CRIB) was signed into law. This law creates a pathway for
Medicaid reimbursement, previously unavailable to Brigid’s Path type facilities.
In three years, the collaboration of volunteers such as Sisters of the Precious Blood, Kettering
Health Network, Premier Health Systems, CareSource, the Dayton Exchange Club, nurses,
doctors, churches, and many more, all answered Jill’s calling and made Brigid’s Path (patron saint
of babies) a reality in September 2017 with the first baby welcomed on December 29, 2017. Mrs.
Kingston, the creator and founder of Brigid’s Path, is nationally recognized for her work with
Brigid’s Path and promoting the care of NAS babies. Jill graduated from Northmont, the Ohio
State University, Wright State University and is now serving the youngest and most fragile in the
entire Miami Valley.