49 years of safe kids, strong families

Founded in 1977, Child Crisis Arizona exists to provide children and youth in Arizona with a safe environment, free from abuse and neglect, by creating strong and successful families.  

The organization began by responding to an urgent need in the community: ensuring children had a safe place to go when no other placement options were available. Over five decades, Child Crisis Arizona has built upon this foundation of crisis intervention, expanding its services in response to the changing and increasingly complex needs of children and families across Arizona.  

Today, we provide a comprehensive continuum of services centered on crisis intervention, child abuse prevention, and lifelong wellness.

Our crisis intervention programs offer immediate safety, stability, and support during some of the most difficult moments in a child’s life. These programs include trauma-informed shelter and stabilization services for foster children and youth ages 2 to 21; foster care and adoption support, including services for kinship caregivers; and Children’s Refugee Services for unaccompanied minors entering the United States.  

As our work grew, we recognized that protecting children also requires reaching families before challenges become crises. Our prevention programs help caregivers build the knowledge, confidence, and resources needed to create safe and nurturing homes. Early Education supports children during critical stages of development while connecting and empowering their entire families. Family Support Services further strengthen households through safe parenting courses, distribution of basic needs items, and Healthy Families Arizona, a voluntary home visitation program that supports families during pregnancy and early childhood.  

Our newest area of growth advances child and family wellness by creating opportunities for collaboration, healing, connection, and long-term resilience.
Through the Center for Child & Family Wellness and Whispering Hope Ranch, children and families can access supportive experiences and community resources that promote their overall well-being.    

Since residential emergency shelter services began in 1977, Child Crisis Arizona has provided emergency shelter to 35,635 children and foster care and adoption services to 8,618 children. Throughout our history, our programs have provided family education and stabilization services to 129,406 adults and children, early childhood education and wraparound services to 5,380 children from low-income households and their families, and basic-needs items to 13,967 individuals. In 2025 alone, Child Crisis Arizona served 23,662 individuals across all programs.  

Whether responding during a crisis, preventing abuse and neglect, or supporting lasting stability and wellness, our scope of work reflects Child Crisis Arizona’s continued commitment to our vision of Safe Kids. Strong Families.