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Aid to Adoption of Special Kids (AASK)

http://www.aask-az.org/

Mission: Dedicated to the placement of children with special needs into permanent loving homes by providing parent training and education, birth parent counseling, adoption placement, specialized medical foster care for young children, post-placement case management, support and supervision, and community education.

Arizona Center for Afterschool Excellence

http://www.azafterschool.org/

Mission: To improve access to high quality out-of-school learning opportunities for all Arizona children and youth through professional development, advocacy, and community capacity building.

Arizona Child Care Resource & Referral

http://azchildcare.org/

Mission: To help families find child care by providing training and resources for child care providers and information for the community.

Arizona Children’s Association

http://www.arizonaschildren.org/

Mission: Protecting children and preserving families by providing a broad spectrum of services that foster healing and promote emotional wellbeing. 

Arizona Department of Education

http://www.ade.az.gov/

Mission: To ensure academic excellence for all students.

Arizona Department of Health Services

Division of Behavioral Health Services

http://www.azdhs.gov/bhs/

Mission: To provide strong clinical and administrative leadership for Arizona that:

-       Recognizes and promotes behavioral health as an integral factor in overall health and wellness;

-       Promotes innovative, high-quality, culturally responsive, outcome-based services provided to a diverse population who may face multiple challenges;

-       Delivers objective and effective customer service;

-       Promotes and fosters recovery, independence and empowerment for service recipients;

-       Increases meaningful peer and family voice and involvement;

-       Facilitates ongoing and effective clinical supervision for the workforce in the community;

-       Emphasizes the importance of accountability for the timeliness and quality of services provided;

-       Emphasizes the importance of accountability for the responsible use of finite financial resources; and

-       Attracts and retains a caring and highly competent workforce.

Arizona DES Child Care Administration

http://www.azdes.gov/childcare

Mission: To assist eligible families with child care costs, enabling parents to participate in employment and specific education and training activities related to employment or in certain other circumstances when parents are unable to provide care.

Art Awakenings

http://www.artawakenings.org/

To promote empowerment and recovery through the power of creative expression with children and adults that face behavioral health challenges.

Childhelp®

http://www.childhelp.org/

Mission: Childhelp® exists to meet the physical, emotional, educational, and spiritual needs of abused, neglected and at-risk children. We focus our efforts on advocacy, prevention, treatment, and community outreach.

Community Information & Referral

http://www.cir.org/

Mission: To provide integrated information that brings people and services together every day with ease, compassion, and quality to meet vital needs throughout Arizona. Our vision is for all people to have easy access to information about the full range of health, human, and emergency services provided in Arizona communities.

Maricopa Crisis Recovery Network

http://www.maricopacrn.org/

Mission: Inspiring hope during life’s most challenging times.  We operate the nation’s largest publicly funded 24/7 Crisis Call Center and subcontract for other crisis services including, the dispatch of mobile teams and crisis transportation.

National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)

http://www.naeyc.org/

Mission: To improve the well-being of all young children, with a particular focus on the quality of educational and developmental services for all children from birth through age 8.

Family Connections Program

gsegura@azdes.gov.

Mission: To Link families to community resources that will assist them in achieving their fullest potential.  Services are voluntary for families and focus on the family and their strengths.  Referrals to the teams are received from shelter’s, schools, Child Protective Services, other DES programs, community agencies, the Arizona Coalition Against Domestic Violence, and other community groups.

First Things First

http://www.azftf.gov/

Mission: To increase the quality of, and access to, the early childhood development and health system that ensures a child entering school comes healthy and ready to succeed.