Community Resources"
Index
- Adoption Services
- Afterschool Programs
- Community Support
- Counseling Services
- Crisis Services
- Education Services
ADOPTION SERVICES
Aid to Adoption of Special Kids (AASK)
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.
Christian Family Care
Vision: We envision a future in which every child is loved and nurtured in a Christ-centered family.
Mission: Serving vulnerable children and families in the name of Jesus Christ.
Services: Foster care, adoption, pregnancy counseling, counseling, and thrift stores.
AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAMS
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.
COMMUNITY SUPPORT
Community Information & Referral
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.
Family Connections Program
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.
COUNSELING SERVICES
Statewide Services
Arizona Department of Health Services
Division of Behavioral Health Services
Administer Arizona’s publicly funded behavioral health service system for individuals, families and communities.
Services for children and adults with substance use and/or general mental health disorders, services for children with a serious emotional disturbance, services for adults with a serious mental illness, statewide crisis system – including crisis phones, warm lines, mobile teams, inpatient psychiatric and detoxification facilities, operate seven (7) days a week; serve the general public, prevention programs for children and adults.
County Specific Services
Maricopa County
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 Interfaith Counseling
Arizona Interfaith Counseling is a not-for-profit organization (501(c)3) whose mission is to provide psychologically skilled, spiritually sensitive, and affordable pastoral counseling to individuals, couples, families, and groups in an effort to help them achieve wholeness and health.
Catholic Charities Community
http://www.catholiccharitiesaz.org/
Services: Protecting and nurturing children, strengthening families, supporting people in crisis, supporting caring communities
Chicanos Por La Causa
Our social service programs include behavioral health, domestic violence shelter and prevention, emergency assistance, elder services, legal immigration counseling, HIV, individual and family counseling, women’s health, employment training and drug and alcohol rehabilitation and prevention.
Childhelp®
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.
First Things First Program
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.
Friendly House
Services: Adult workforce development, counseling, homecare, immigration services, early childhood and youth services.
Jewish Family and Children’s Services
Our services are geared to support and strengthen individuals and families at all points during their lives including parents caring for children, adults caring for their elderly parents, seniors seeking vital services, children and adolescents looking for mentors or community service, adults with chronic illnesses or disabilities, and many others seeking support and counsel to restore themselves to fuller, more self-sufficient.
National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
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.
Phoenix Interfaith Counseling
http://www.phx-interfaith.org/
Phoenix Interfaith Counseling provides psychotherapy and psychiatric services for adults, families, adolescents and children. We offer specialized services to deal with the difficult problems of suicidal and self-harming behaviors in adults and adolescents and marital and sexual therapy. Phoenix Interfaith Counseling provides training and supervision in its clinical residency program and conducts workshops for mental health professionals. We actively partner with organizations like Homeward Bound and Florence Crittenton to help them provide counseling services to their clients who are in need.
Southwest Behavioral Health
Services are community-based, customer driven, and culturally sensitive. Treatment is built around individual and family strengths. Services include mental health counseling, prevention and substance abuse programs, community integration, crisis recovery programs.
Southwest Human Development
Our psychologists and therapists work exclusively with infants, toddlers, preschoolers and their families. Services are provided in your home or our offices and cover questions and challenges in a wide range of areas, including sleeping, eating, tantrums, aggression, fussiness or excessive crying, withdrawn or sad behavior, bonding and attachment issues.
Touchstone Behavioral Health
Touchstone Behavioral Health uses three programmatic approaches to work with you and your family in behavior therapy toward a better and more productive future: Prevention, Outpatient Therapy, and Out of Home Treatment. Our science-based programs with proven outcomes and our experienced, dedicated staff have earned the reputation and respect in juvenile behavior therapy for which we are recognized.
COUNSELING
Outside Maricopa County
Tucson
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.
Parent Connection
http://www.theparentconnectionaz.org/
The programs and services offered at The Parent Connection are invaluable to promoting the well-being and resiliency of families in our community. There are several formats to choose from each incorporating the concepts of mutual respect between family members as well as fun and engaging activities that promote child development and positive parenting techniques. Programs and services include First Steps, Healthy Families, play-based parenting groups, and parenting classes.
Su Voz Vale
http://www.sacasa.org/suvozvale.htm
Su Voz Vale (Your Voice Counts) is a bilingual and bicultural program offering services to victims of sexual violence from Tucson’s south, west and southwest areas and the City of South Tucson. Su Voz Vale offers a variety of services including crisis intervention and advocacy, community education and outreach, and therapy.
Prescott
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.
Catholic Charities Community
http://www.catholiccharitiesaz.org/
Services: Protecting and nurturing children, strengthening families, supporting people in crisis, supporting caring communities
Dexter Family Resource Center
http://www.prescottschools.com/
West Yavapai Guidance Clinic
The WYGC Children and Family Services Program seeks to assist in the improvement of overall functioning and well-being of children and families. The services offered are family, individual, and group therapy, in-home services, intensive outpatient chemical dependency treatment, and psychiatry medication management.
Flagstaff
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.
Catholic Charities Community
http://www.catholiccharitiesaz.org/
Services: Protecting and nurturing children, strengthening families, supporting people in crisis, supporting caring communities
The Guidance Center
The Flagstaff Location is an Inpatient and Outpatient Facility and is licensed by the ADHS Office Behavioral Health Licensure as an Outpatient Clinic approved to deliver counseling, title 36 court ordered treatment, DUI screening, treatment, and education.
Casa Grande
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.
Corazon Behavioral Health
http://az-casa-grande.doctors.at/dr/corazon-behavioral-health-services
Helping Associates
http://www.helpingassociates.com/haihom.htm
Services include individual, marital and family, young children and youth counseling, mental training and stress management, alcohol and drug abuse, eating disorder, and sex offender treatment, psychiatric services, community education and consultation.
Horizon Human Services
http://www.horizonhumanservices.org/
Services offered at Horizon include outpatient, general mental health counseling for adults and children, intensive outpatient treatment for substance abuse related issues for adults and children, outpatient psychiatric and medication monitoring services for adults and children, serious mental illness (SMI) habilitation programs, SMI residential facilities, substance abuse residential treatment program, transitional housing, and a domestic violence safe home.
Payson
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.
Southwest Behavioral Health – Rim Guidance Center
Services are community-based, customer driven, and culturally sensitive. Treatment is built around individual and family strengths. Services include mental health counseling, prevention and substance abuse programs, community integration, crisis recovery programs.
Cottonwood
Catholic Charities Community
http://www.catholiccharitiesaz.org/
Services: Protecting and nurturing children, strengthening families, supporting people in crisis, supporting caring communities
Kingman, Lake Havasu and Bullhead City
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.
Catholic Charities Community
http://www.catholiccharitiesaz.org/
Services: Protecting and nurturing children, strengthening families, supporting people in crisis, supporting caring communities
Mohave Mental Health Clinic
Mohave Mental Health Clinic, Inc. is the Private, Not for Profit Community Mental Health Center for Mohave County, Arizona. We are located in Mohave County which is the Northwestern part of the State. We share the primary mission of providing Emergency Mental Health Services and ongoing care and treatment to eligible members in the community. A diverse range of funding support programs for the Seriously Mentally Ill, children and families, substance abusing adults and individuals requiring crisis support.
Arizona Child Care Resource & Referral
Mission: To help families find child care by providing training and resources for child care providers and information for the community.
CRISIS SERVICES
Maricopa County Crisis Line (Magellan): 602-222-9444
Cochise, Graham, Greenlee, Pima Counties (CPSA): 1-520-622-6000
Pinal, Gila, La Paz, Yuma Counties (Cenpatico): 1-866-495-6735
Coconino and Yavapai Counties (NARBHA): 1-877-756-4090
Additional Crisis Hotlines
Arizona Child Abuse Hotline: 1-888-767-2445
Arizona Homeless/Domestic Violence Shelter: 1-800-799-7739
Child Help National Child Abuse Hotline: 1-800-422-4453
EMPACT Suicide Prevention Hotline: 480-784-1500
EMPACT Suicide Prevention Statewide: 1-866-205-5229
Food Assistance: 1-800-445-1914
National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233
National Pregnancy Hotline: 1-800-222-1222
Poison Control (Maricopa County): 602-253-3334
Southwest Network Crisis Hotline: 1-800-631-1314
Helplines
Birth to Five Helpline: 1-877-705-5437
AZ Department of Education: 1-800-352-4558
Children’s Information Center: 1-800-232-1676
Community Information and Referral: 602-263-8856
Community Information and Referral (statewide): 1-800-352-3795
Pregnancy and Breastfeeding Arizona: 1-800-833-4542
Postpartum Warmline: 1-888-434-6667
Su Familia (National Hispanic Family Health Helpline): 1-866-783-2645
Legal Advocacy (Arizona): 1-800-782-6400
EDUCATION SERVICES
Arizona Department of Education
Mission: To ensure academic excellence for all students.
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.