Our funded agencies are our partners in helping United Way to succeed at our mission to Build a Better Community.
The following agencies are working with us to focus on our community’s most critical issues and deliver quality health and human services those who need it most.
Administration of Resources and Choices
Administration of Resources and Choices mission is to respond to community need through the provision of crisis services, emergency shelter, housing, education, counseling, advocacy, case management, economic, health and other safety-related issues focusing on the needs of elderly, women, domestic violence victims, physically impaired, mentally challenged, economically disadvantaged and other special needs populations. (top)
American Red Cross Southern Arizona Chapter
American Red Cross provides services that help people prevent, prepare for, and cope with emergencies and disasters. Emergency services include counseling, emergency communication for military families, refugee tracing and application assistance, and Holocaust tracing. Disaster services offer food, shelter, clothing, and extended assistance to victims. Additional services are blood donation and screening tests, first aid, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training, water safety, family health, AIDS education, and youth programs promoting leadership and self-awareness. (top)
Arizona's Children Association
Arizona's Children Association is a statewide, multi-service agency that provides a broad spectrum of mental health and child welfare services for children and families. In southern Arizona, services include: outpatient services such as individual, group and family therapy and family preservation; residential treatment for children needing intensive and integrated psychiatric treatment, and for substance abusing teens; infant and older child adoption and post-adoption services; foster care including recruitment, training and licensing of foster families; special education for emotionally disturbed children needing an alternative learning environment; and prevention programs including parenting education and support groups. United Way funds are primarily used to support in-home family therapy programs and prevention programs aimed at protecting children and preserving families. (top)
Boys & Girls Clubs of Tucson
Boys & Girls Clubs of Tucson has been in the forefront of youth development, working with young people form disadvantaged economic, social, and family circumstances. The Boys & Girls Club is dedicated to ensuring that our community's disadvantaged youngsters have greater access to quality programs and services that will enhance their lives and shape their future. (top)
Caregiver Consortium
The Caregiver Consortium is a collaboration of business leaders and professionals from the public and private sector that work in the health care field, business community and nonprofit agencies. (top)
Casa de Esperanza
Casa de Esperanza believes than quality time spent between a child and an older adult enhances natural development, builds self-esteem and improves the quality of life. (top)
Catholic Social Services
Catholic Social Service provides a broad range of programs to promote individual, family and community well-being. Services include marital, personal and pregnancy counseling, socialization and nutrition programs, case management, adoption, immigration, parent aid and transitional shelter. (top)
Chicanos Por La Causa
Chicanos Por La Causa provides housing counseling, emergency services, computer training, business lending, first-time home buyers’ assistance, and operates a charter high school and construction company. (top)
Child & Family Resources
Child & Family Resources is headquartered in Tucson and has full-service branch offices in Yuma, Sierra Vista, Douglas, Safford and Nogales. Currently, Child & Family Resources provides a diverse range of 27 programs in the area of child care, youth services and family support. Last year, the agency programs touched the lives of 25,000 children and more than 9,000 families. (top)
CODAC Behavioral Health Services, Inc.
CODAC Behavioral Health Services, Inc. provides substance abuse prevention and treatment and mental health services for adults, children and families. CODAC’s mission is to work collaboratively with individuals, families and organizations to eliminate the harmful effects of addiction disorders, mental illness and abuse on their lives and communities. (top)
Community Outreach Program for the Deaf
Community Outreach Program for the Deaf assists deaf, deaf/blind and hard-of-hearing people with a variety of services to help enhance individual independence. Counseling services assist individuals and families with daily living, parenting, communication problems, adjustment to hearing loss, alcohol and drug abuse. The deaf/blind program provides aid in environmental adaptations, counseling for adjustment to ongoing hearing and vision loss, and support services to aid in living independently. Interpreting services provide access to resources and information for consumers who are deaf. A hearing aid bank allows individuals to obtain hearing aids at minimal cost. (top)
DIRECT Center for Independence
DIRECT Center for Independence was established to help people with disabilities live independently and become self-sufficient. DIRECT provides the following services: intake assessment to determine specific needs, counseling, personal assistance referral, housing referral, advocacy, social and recreational activities, minor home adaptations, independent living skills training and counseling. (top)
Easter Seals/ Blake Foundation
The Blake Foundation provides therapeutic, residential and vocational training programs to adults with significant disabilities, as well as comprehensive social and educational services to families with young children. Through home, community and center-based early childhood and parenting programs, Blake provides therapeutic recreational programs, independent living skills and work adjustment training, counseling, opportunities for community involvement, job development services. (top)
Interfaith Community Services
Interfaith Community Services (formerly Northwest Interfaith Center) was founded in 1985 as an interfaith organization to meet the needs of low-income, elderly and disabled people living primarily in northwest Tucson. Each year volunteers donate nearly 22,000 hours in services to 14,000 people. Their programs include Food Bank, Good Samaritan emergency assistance funds, Mobile Meals, VICaP (Volunteer Interfaith Caregivers Program), friendly neighborly services and Telecare daily reassurance. (top)
Jewish Family and Children's Service
Jewish Family and Children’s Service is a nonsectarian agency dedicated to strengthening family life. A full array of services is available including: counseling for individuals, couples, families and groups; family life education, specialized children's services, and a refugee resettlement program. The JFCS Institute of Continuing Education for Human Service Professionals meets the professional development needs of paraprofessionals and post-degree professionals. Case management, health promotion and awareness, an in-home companion service, and a homemaker program are also offered for the benefit of the elderly and adults with disabilities. (top)
La Frontera Center
La Frontera Center is a community behavioral health center that has been serving residents of Pima County, Arizona since 1968. The agency provides case management; assessment, evaluation, and diagnosis; outpatient mental health counseling for children, adults, families and groups; substance abuse identification and treatment, including methadone maintenance and residential services; latency/adolescent day treatment; and a broad range of services for persons with serious mental illness, including partial care, residential services and homeless outreach. (top)
Las Familias- A Member of Arizona's Children Association Family of Agencies
Las Familias provides out patient mental health facility that facilitates the healing process of children and adults through counseling on an individual, family or group basis. (top)
Lutheran Social Ministry of the Southwest
The social services provided by LSMS include multicultural services (refugee resettlement, English as a Second Language, job placement, housing assistance and immigration services), community and family services (marriage and couples enrichment and communication, emergency assistance, employment services, crisis intervention programs including counseling and hotline services, disaster response and preparedness and mentoring programs) and senior services (in-home services including housekeeping, respite and personal care, adult day health care and assisted living. (top)
Make Way For Books
Make Way For Books is a non-profit organization established to provide a continuum of early literacy programs and services for disadvantaged children, birth through age 5. (top)
Our Famiy Services
Our Family provides a continuum of services to people in every stage of life, from the babies of homeless youth to seniors who need support to maintain their independence. Services are offered in four main areas – counseling, education and prevention, homeless services and services to older and disabled adults – and are available in English and Spanish. Created by the merger of Family Counseling Agency and OUR TOWN, Our Family has a combined history of more than 75 years of making our community a better place to live, to grow up and to grow older. (top)
Pima Council on Aging
Pima Council on Aging is advocate for issues affecting the elderly and is a direct provider for some services. These direct services include the Pima County Ombudsman, Retired and Senior Volunteer Program, Medicare/Insurance Counseling, and the Long-term Care Advocacy Program. PCOA also maintains a Gerontological Resource Library, administers the Co-Host Assistive Devices Program, Helping Other Seniors Trust, Give-A-Car Campaign, Pension Information and Counseling Project, Health Benefits Outreach, the Ambassador Program, Neighbors Care Program, Coronado Hotel Apartments, Personal Budgeting Assistance Program, Speakers Bureau and publishes the Never Too Late newspaper. (top)
Pima County Community College District/Pima College Adult Education
For more than 30 years, Pima College Adult Education has played a major role in raising the education level of the community. Quality instruction and a dedicated staff have reached adults who need basic skills to succeed in higher education and advanced work training.Numerous local, state and national excellence awards to the Adult Education (PCAE) program attest to its success. Just one example: Twice PCAE was named by the U.S. Secretary of Education's Award as one of the country's top 10 Outstanding Adult Education and Literacy Programs.(top)
Pima County - One Stop Center
Pima County One Stop is a system of organizations that provide career development services for youth and adults and support to employers in recruiting, staffing and training a viable workforce. The One Stop conducts special outreach to low-income, dislocated worker and high-school dropout populations. While services are coordinated centrally, they are delivered through a network of more than 50 organizations ranging from community-based non-profits to governmental agencies to private technical schools.(top)
Pio Decimo Center
Pio Decimo Center is a multipurpose neighborhood center serving all age groups. Children's services include a preschool, kindergarten, a latchkey program, childcare, informal education classes and recreational activities for predominately low-income families. Services targeted to adults and families include transitional housing, a community outreach and development program, counseling, health education, nutrition classes, a wellness clinic and a job bank. (top)
Reach Out and Read Southern Arizona
Reach Out and Read Southern Arizona is a group of 13 pediatric out-patient clinics in southern Arizona that are dedicated to promoting early childhood literacy using the national Reach Out and Read model. The mission of Reach Out and Read is to make literacy promotion a standard part of pediatric primary care, so that children grow up with books, a love of reading and the beginning foundations for literacy development and readiness for school. This year, pediatricians in these clinics will counsel families of more than 15,000 children age 6 months to 6 years on the importance of sharing books and distribute 22,000 free books. (top)
Southern Arizona Center Against Sexual Assault
Southern Arizona Center Against Sexual Assault is a community-based, non-profit corporation that has been providing a broad array of services to assist survivors of sexual assault since 1974. SACASA also strives to educate the general public on sexual assault awareness and prevention issues. The Crisis Intervention Program operates a 24-hour crisis line through which trained advocates provide callers with immediate crisis intervention assistance. SACASA services also include specialized counseling services for individual, group, families and couples, and therapy designed to reduce the trauma of sexual assault. (top)
Southern Arizona Children's Advocacy Center
Southern Arizona Children's Advocacy Center is a child- and family-friendly facility that ensures coordination of child abuse investigations. The center also provides expert medical evaluations, a 24-hour urgent triage services, videotaped forensic interviews and case management. (top)
St. Elizabeth of Hungary Clinic
St. Elizabeth of Hungary Clinic provides medical, dental and out-reach services to those who are uninsured and ineligible for government-sponsored health programs. (top)
The Parent Connection
The Parent Connection is a prevention resource center that enriches the lives of children, birth to age 5, by providing parents with education, information and support. (top)
The Salvation Army
The Salvation Army provides emergency and transitional shelter, food, clothing, rent and utility assistance, meals for seniors, counseling and other critical services for individuals and families in need. (top)
TMM Family Services
TMM Family Services, founded in 1974, is an ecumenical social service agency supported by individuals, government entities and 75 interfaith communities. Programs include: Children’s Village for at-risk children ages 3 to 13 removed from home and awaiting adoption, foster care or return home; childcare centers; Family Journey Transitional Housing for homeless and at-risk single moms and children to assist developing skills needed for greater self-sufficiency; first-time homebuyers program for qualified low-income families to obtain home ownership; and free clothing and bedding to qualified homeless/low-income through a voucher system. (top)
Tucson Jewish Community Center
The Tucson Jewish Community Center strives to provide the Tucson community and our friends with a common meeting place, where all may belong. The JCC aims to meet the educational, social, recreational and cultural needs of their families with an emphasis on Jewish values and culture. (top)
Tucson Nursery School and Child Care Centers
Tucson Nursery Schools provides childcare programs with early learning and socialization opportunities for primarily minority children of low-income often single parent, working families. Programs are geared for toddlers, preschools and school age children. (top)
Tucson Urban League, Inc
Tucson Urban League offers comprehensive services to disadvantaged individuals and families of all races. Services include emergency utility assistance, housing assistance, home weatherization, emergency home repair, education, employment and training programs for youth and adults, computer-based literacy programs, General Equivalency Diploma preparation, child care, drug and gang prevention programs, and day support for youth on probation. TUL also develops programs for and manages the Quincie Douglas Neighborhood Center in the South Park area. The Tucson Urban League serves as an advocate for African Americans, other minorities and the poor by analyzing and addressing public policy issues that impact these groups. (top)
United Community Health Center
United Community Health Center delivers primary care health services, including prenatal and maternal health services, at three clinics in rural Pima County: Arivaca, Continental and Three Points. Special consideration is given to those with geographical, financial, ethnic, developmental or age-related problems of access. Clinics offer a wide spectrum of services in addition to family medical care, school physicals and special well-women and well-child programs. (top)
Volunteer Center of Southern Arizona
The Volunteer Center of Southern Arizona solves community problems by engaging volunteers in meaningful ways that impact the issues facing our communities. Programs include Youth Volunteer Corps, Mentoring Partnership, Youth Leadership and a volunteer clearinghouse. (top)
YMCA of Metropolitan Tucson
Through six neighborhood branches and a residence camp in Oracle, YMCA provides programs and services for children, adults and families. The YMCA offers comprehensive child care and community outreach programs for children at schools. A wide spectrum of physical fitness programs and recreational activities are offered, including a residential camp, health and wellness education classes, and opportunities for parent and child activities. (top) |
