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Membership organization of professionals in the area of aging. Website provides list of member nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, memory care, and independent living facilities. Advocates at the legislative level for quality senior housing and long term care.
Promotes equal opportunities. Recognizes people and corporations who have worked to promote better race relations and social and economic equality at the annual Whitney M Young Jr Awards Dinner.
Promotes economic self-sufficiency for low-income people through collaborations. Performs legislative advocacy for the disadvantaged. Collects, evaluates, and disseminates data relating to poverty programs, problems, and the movement of the poor and working poor toward self-sufficiency. Does not provide direct services to individuals.
Promotes civil liberties primarily through advocacy and/or litigation, but not a general legal defense organization. Defends constitutional issues through public education programs and by seeking enactment of laws to strengthen and protect these issues.
Provides peer-run outpatient treatment. Offers physical health and wellness services, individual and group counseling, mental health services, discharge care coordination after psychiatric hospitalization, trauma informed care, recovery support services, independent living skills, community integration, education, and advocacy.
Advocates for rights, dignity, equity, and opportunity for youth in the child welfare and justice systems.
Advocates for people with developmental, physical, cognitive, or psychiatric disabilities in the areas of education, health care, mental health care, housing, accessibility, abuse, neglect, employment, and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) related issues. Legal concerns must arise from the disability. Provides information, technical assistance, and training on legal rights and represent individuals in negotiations, administrative proceedings, and in court. Brings impact litigation on systemic issues.
Provides health information about the relationship between diet and chronic diseases, with emphasis on the benefit of vegetarian diets. Website provides fact sheets which can be downloaded. Promotes preventive medicine, ethical research, and an end to animal cruelty in labs and education.
Advocates to protect the rights of inmates to obtain medical care, protective custody, correct time computations, and timely releases. Responds to email and snail mail inquiries on a variety of prison policy and procedure issues. Offers information and expertise to public officials, prisoners' families, and government agencies on corrections and criminal justice issues. Serves as expert witness on prisoner/family issues, capital punishment cases, time computation errors, gang violence, sexual assault/harassment, prison policy and procedure, and development of mitigation issues. Provides clemency board hearing preparation, mitigation and expert witness services, time computations, interstate compact transfer assistance, release eligibility analysis, assistance on death penalty issues, analysis of applicability of new laws to currently sentenced offenders. Sponsors litigation and/or legislation to protect or define constitutional, civil, and administrative rights and responsibilities of incarcerated people and their supporters. Researches criminal justice issues for political candidates, attorneys, agencies, and other interested groups. Serves as a watchdog agency over state prisons and county jails.
Provides support for existing child care services and the expansion of family childcare in the region. Works to develop, support, and improve early childhood care and educational resources through education, advocacy, and networking.
Provides opportunities for middle and high school youth in Casa Grande to be involved in community service and advocacy, as well as build personal skills.
Coordinates family planning healthcare services through Title X funding. Website provides list of partner clinics offering birth control, Pap tests, breast & testicular exams, safer sex supplies, and STI testing, including for HIV, and STI treatment. Services are for low-wage earners, the uninsured, underinsured, youth and other groups systematically excluded from receiving care.
Assists people affected by mental illness in finding the treatment and services they need. Works to improve private and public behavioral health systems and related resources which serve adults with a serious mental illness (SMI) designation. Works to erase the stigma of mental illness. Offers support groups for people with mental illness, their families and friends.

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Community anti-drug coalition. Provides family resource center, substance abuse prevention education through workshops, public outreach, and presentations to schools, clubs, and businesses. Works to change public and social policy related to substance abuse and prevention. Mentors the development of new drug prevention coalitions across Arizona. Offers diaper assistance, food pantry, and clothing to those in need.
Assists people affected by mental illness in finding the treatment and services they need. Works to improve private and public behavioral health systems and related resources serving persons with serious mental illnesses (SMI) and to erase the stigma of mental illness. Offers support groups for people with mental illness, their families and friends.
Engages in administrative advocacy and files litigation to address major public policy matters affecting people with low incomes. Also provides training activities and coordination efforts for providers of legal services and other community agencies providing services to families with low incomes. Provides information about free civil legal aid for people with low incomes on topics including public benefits, unemployment insurance, health care, housing, education, family law, disability rights, and fair access to the court system.
Provides health information for older Arizonans and for professionals who help seniors. The Healthy Aging Liaison serves as an advocate, resource, and communication link between the Department and other agencies and entities providing direct or indirect public health services to Arizona's older adults.
Performs advocacy with administrative agencies, legislative bodies, and the courts, and files class action litigation on issues affecting a whole community, such as consumer concerns and environmental pollution.
Offers programs for victims of domestic violence and/or child abuse. Provides group counseling sessions, parenting and life skills instruction, and domestic violence education. Site for coordinated entry into housing.
Assists people affected by mental illness in finding the treatment and services they need. Works to improve private and public behavioral health systems and related resources which serve adults with a serious mental illness (SMI) designation. Works to erase the stigma of mental illness. Offers support groups for people with mental illness, their families and friends.

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Provides information about lung diseases and the dangers of smoking. Advocates for smoke-free places. Works to reduce air pollution through education and advocacy.
Advocates for people with developmental, physical, cognitive, or psychiatric disabilities in the areas of education, health care, mental health care, housing, accessibility, abuse, neglect, employment, and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) related issues. Legal concerns must arise from the disability. Provides information, technical assistance, and training on legal rights and represent individuals in negotiations, administrative proceedings, and in court. Brings impact litigation on systemic issues.
Provides mental illness educational programs and support groups for the entire community.
Advocates for affordable housing at the local, state, and federal legislative levels. Offers training, including an annual conference with over 800 attendees, and support to organizations dealing with affordable housing and homelessness issues. Houses the Arizona Veterans StandDown Alliance, a program that allows veterans and their families who are experiencing housing instability and homelessness to get and stay connected to supportive services. Does not provide direct services for people experiencing homelessness or housing instability.
Administers services for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender older adults. Advocates at the federal, state, and local level for public policies that improve their health and quality of life.