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Child Crisis Arizona Brings Services to Peoria
Child Crisis Arizona is pleased to be one of 11 non-profits opening up a new workspace inside the newly-formed Community Assistance Resource Center, bringing foster care and adoption and family education services to the west valley. Child Crisis Arizona staff will be...
12 Children Graduate from Child Crisis Arizona Preschool
A dozen families shared dozens of smiles on Friday, June 21 as they watched their four-year-olds accept their preschool diplomas at the Child Crisis Arizona Phoenix Early Education campus. Each year Child Crisis Arizona provides quality preschool at a very low cost to...
Ensuring Families Don’t Go Hungry
As temperatures heat up and schools release for the summer many families in our community are wondering how they are going to make ends meet. Child Crisis Arizona is proud to partner with United Food Bank to provide a once-a-month food bank at our Mesa Campus....
Why it’s Important to Support Reunification
June is National Reunification Month, so we wanted to chat about the importance of familial reunification for children in out-of-home care. The goal of reunification is the child returning to the primary caregiver(s) once the child is safe. It’s natural to feel a...
Celebrate the Role of Fathers
June is the time to celebrate Fathers! At Child Crisis Arizona we applaud the fathers who make a special effort to be a part of their child’s life. Like Ambrosio, father to two young children, who sits on the Parent Committee and has sat on the Policy Council for the...
Child Crisis Arizona Announced as New Lead Agency for Safe Kids Maricopa County
Child Crisis Arizona is thrilled to be named the lead agency for Safe Kids of Maricopa County, adding accidental injury prevention activities and classes to our list of family education programs. Since 1994, Safe Kids Maricopa County (SKMC) has educated parents and...
Fostering Teens is a Rewarding Experience
A few hours after welcoming a new teen from the foster care system into her home, Nicole Singleton was hosting dinner with her boyfriend. It wasn’t until weeks later that he realized the two women had just met that day. “We just hung out in the kitchen and there was...
Meet Child Crisis Arizona Families – Foster Care Month
May is Foster Care Awareness Month. In 2018 Child Crisis Arizona's licensed foster homes provided nearly 78,000 nights of safe sleep for hundreds of children. We asked Ricky, a foster parent with Child Crisis Arizona, about his experience. What inspired you to take...
A Collaborative Effort Brings Maricopa Head Start Classrooms to Mesa
On January 14th, Child Crisis Arizona held a ribbon cutting to welcome Maricopa County Head Start and 40 additional children to our facility. Child Crisis Arizona in partnership with grants funding of $200,000 from The Bob & Renee...
“We Knew Our Family Was Complete.”
Nicholas was placed in foster care when he was two days old. While his foster parent provided a safe home for him for two years, Nicholas needed a forever home and a family. After learning about the growing need for foster families for children like Nicholas, Matt,...
Adoption Gave Evan & His Siblings a Second Chance
As toddlers, Evan and his younger brother were placed in Child Crisis Arizona’s Emergency Children’s Shelter after suffering unimaginable abuse and neglect. After being placed in several foster homes, they were back in the care of Child Crisis Arizona when they met...
Child Crisis Arizona’s Lunch for Love Raises $500,000 for Prevention, Intervention & Education Programs
Annual Fundraising Luncheon Features Stories of Love, Courage & Resiliency MESA, ARIZ (September 27, 2018) - Child Crisis Arizona welcomed more than 500 guests to its annual Lunch for Love fundraising luncheon on Wednesday,...