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Youth
• Sin Puertas addresses adolescent substance disorders and recovery needs. Clinical Services operates: a day support program, a peer driven youth recovery movement, group counseling, and HIV & AIDS information
• SOS (Street Outreach System) is a program to support homeless and near homeless youths and young adults ages 12-21 with services that address their needs including: Assessments, Survival Aid, Emergency Aid, Prevention & Education, Youth & Family Workshop, School-based Homeless Support.
• Open Inn is a walk-in youth resource center that provides case management, basic needs, showers, hygiene and health items, food, discussion and educational groups, activities and referrals for homeless youth and young adults living on the streets or in other dangerous situations.
• Our Family provides a continuum of services to people in every stage of life-babies, children, youth, families, seniors, disabled adults
• La Paloma Family provides shelter, counseling, guidance and assistance to children who have suffered abused, neglect and abandonment.
• Youth on Their Own is dedicated to support the high school graduation and continued success of homeless youth by providing financial assistance, basic human needs and guidance.
• LIFT-Yes Network provides financial assistance for students who are living with grandparents.
• EON works to strengthen the gay, lesbian, bisexual, two spirited, transgender, questioning, intersexed, and straight ally youth communities by creating social opportunities, providing into and support on health issues, advocating for youth rights and challenging society’s perceptions of youth as they face institutionalized oppressions that target the many facets of their identities.
• Su Voz Vale(your voice counts) is a bilingual and bicultural program offering services to victims of sexual violence such as Crisis Intervention Advocacy, Community Education and Outreach, Therapy, El Cafecito(support group), Casa Mariposa(transitional housing program) and Battered Immigrant Woman.
• SAMHAC is a 24 hour walk in that provides crisis behavioral health services to the entire community, regardless of ability to pay insurance status, or age.
• Tu Nidito “your little nest” offers support groups for children and teenagers who are grieving the death of a loved one. They provide a safe place where children can share their loss experiences in a caring supportive environment.
• Skrappys is a youth-run, youth oriented performing arts and after-school center as well as an all ages music venue, performance space and community hub located in downtown. Starting off as a place for house shows for youth and by youth it is a billed drug free, positive environment that encourages expression and youth culture. Skrappys specializes in live music, art classes, visual art, printing, photography, writing, publishing, activism, organizing, civic engagement and empowerment and as an open drop-in providing food clothing and other services.
• TOPS(Teen Outreach Pregnancy Services) provides teen specific pregnancy, childbirth, and parental educational support so the teen and her family can experience a positive outcome.
• Pima County Juvenile Probation working with Probation Officers. Prevention is the focus again. Everything from early intervention to revamping the child welfare system is impacting the lives of the children they serve and increasing their chances of becoming productive and successful adults.
Medical
• The University of Arizona Mobile Health empowers underserved communities by developing sustainable systems that increase access health promotion, disease prevention and health care services.
• St. Elizabeth of Hungary, El Rio Health Center and Clinica Del Alma are clinics that cares for the uninsured and underinsured persons in the region. It operates with patient fees that are decided on a sliding scale according to what patients can afford.
• PCAP provides access to professional health care at discounted prices that the uninsured can afford.
• Project C.O.N.T.A.C.T and The Kino Teen Center are teen walk in clinics that provides confidential services such as birth control methods, emergency contraceptive pills, pregnancy testing, pelvic and breast exams, pap smear tests, sexually transmitted disease treatments, testing, counseling and education. Parents do not need to accompany youth.
• Reachout provides free pregnancy testing, sonograms, so you can see your baby, prenatal and counseling guidance, adoption information and referrals, medical and employment planning, clothing, diapers and post abortion counseling.
• Primeros Pasos clinic provides comprehensive obstetrical healthcare services, free pregnancy testing, prenatal education classes from conception through delivery.
Career
• Kino 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.
• Pima County Suillivan-Jackson Employment Center provides training needs of homeless men and woman seeking to enter the workforce. Primarily supported by the U.S. Department of housing and Urban development funding, SJEC has been a pioneer in developing effective approaches to assist homeless individuals and families seeking to become self sufficient.
• JTED provides vocational training courses for pima county students. They earn high school credit while preparing for an early start in a career of their choice.
• Tucson Youth Development, Inc. is a community based organization and nationally recognized leader in providing innovative and successful education, training and employment programs for low-income and at-risk youth ages 14-21 in Pima County. Over 45,000 youth have been provided direct services through TYD's programs enabling young people to remain in school, graduate and transition into post-secondary education/training or the workforce, while gaining valuable work experience and employability skills, develop strong work ethics and achieve their academic, vocational and personal goals.
• Job Corps works through a nationwide network of campuses, Job Corps offers a comprehensive array of career development services to at-risk young women and men, ages 16 to 24, to prepare them for successful careers. Job Corps employs a holistic career development training approach which integrates the teaching of academic, vocational, employability skills and social competencies through a combination of classroom, practical and based learning experiences to prepare youth for stable, long-term, high-paying jobs.
• Sin Puertas addresses adolescent substance disorders and recovery needs. Clinical Services operates: a day support program, a peer driven youth recovery movement, group counseling, and HIV & AIDS information
• SOS (Street Outreach System) is a program to support homeless and near homeless youths and young adults ages 12-21 with services that address their needs including: Assessments, Survival Aid, Emergency Aid, Prevention & Education, Youth & Family Workshop, School-based Homeless Support.
• Open Inn is a walk-in youth resource center that provides case management, basic needs, showers, hygiene and health items, food, discussion and educational groups, activities and referrals for homeless youth and young adults living on the streets or in other dangerous situations.
• Our Family provides a continuum of services to people in every stage of life-babies, children, youth, families, seniors, disabled adults
• La Paloma Family provides shelter, counseling, guidance and assistance to children who have suffered abused, neglect and abandonment.
• Youth on Their Own is dedicated to support the high school graduation and continued success of homeless youth by providing financial assistance, basic human needs and guidance.
• LIFT-Yes Network provides financial assistance for students who are living with grandparents.
• EON works to strengthen the gay, lesbian, bisexual, two spirited, transgender, questioning, intersexed, and straight ally youth communities by creating social opportunities, providing into and support on health issues, advocating for youth rights and challenging society’s perceptions of youth as they face institutionalized oppressions that target the many facets of their identities.
• Su Voz Vale(your voice counts) is a bilingual and bicultural program offering services to victims of sexual violence such as Crisis Intervention Advocacy, Community Education and Outreach, Therapy, El Cafecito(support group), Casa Mariposa(transitional housing program) and Battered Immigrant Woman.
• SAMHAC is a 24 hour walk in that provides crisis behavioral health services to the entire community, regardless of ability to pay insurance status, or age.
• Tu Nidito “your little nest” offers support groups for children and teenagers who are grieving the death of a loved one. They provide a safe place where children can share their loss experiences in a caring supportive environment.
• Skrappys is a youth-run, youth oriented performing arts and after-school center as well as an all ages music venue, performance space and community hub located in downtown. Starting off as a place for house shows for youth and by youth it is a billed drug free, positive environment that encourages expression and youth culture. Skrappys specializes in live music, art classes, visual art, printing, photography, writing, publishing, activism, organizing, civic engagement and empowerment and as an open drop-in providing food clothing and other services.
• TOPS(Teen Outreach Pregnancy Services) provides teen specific pregnancy, childbirth, and parental educational support so the teen and her family can experience a positive outcome.
• Pima County Juvenile Probation working with Probation Officers. Prevention is the focus again. Everything from early intervention to revamping the child welfare system is impacting the lives of the children they serve and increasing their chances of becoming productive and successful adults.
Medical
• The University of Arizona Mobile Health empowers underserved communities by developing sustainable systems that increase access health promotion, disease prevention and health care services.
• St. Elizabeth of Hungary, El Rio Health Center and Clinica Del Alma are clinics that cares for the uninsured and underinsured persons in the region. It operates with patient fees that are decided on a sliding scale according to what patients can afford.
• PCAP provides access to professional health care at discounted prices that the uninsured can afford.
• Project C.O.N.T.A.C.T and The Kino Teen Center are teen walk in clinics that provides confidential services such as birth control methods, emergency contraceptive pills, pregnancy testing, pelvic and breast exams, pap smear tests, sexually transmitted disease treatments, testing, counseling and education. Parents do not need to accompany youth.
• Reachout provides free pregnancy testing, sonograms, so you can see your baby, prenatal and counseling guidance, adoption information and referrals, medical and employment planning, clothing, diapers and post abortion counseling.
• Primeros Pasos clinic provides comprehensive obstetrical healthcare services, free pregnancy testing, prenatal education classes from conception through delivery.
Career
• Kino 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.
• Pima County Suillivan-Jackson Employment Center provides training needs of homeless men and woman seeking to enter the workforce. Primarily supported by the U.S. Department of housing and Urban development funding, SJEC has been a pioneer in developing effective approaches to assist homeless individuals and families seeking to become self sufficient.
• JTED provides vocational training courses for pima county students. They earn high school credit while preparing for an early start in a career of their choice.
• Tucson Youth Development, Inc. is a community based organization and nationally recognized leader in providing innovative and successful education, training and employment programs for low-income and at-risk youth ages 14-21 in Pima County. Over 45,000 youth have been provided direct services through TYD's programs enabling young people to remain in school, graduate and transition into post-secondary education/training or the workforce, while gaining valuable work experience and employability skills, develop strong work ethics and achieve their academic, vocational and personal goals.
• Job Corps works through a nationwide network of campuses, Job Corps offers a comprehensive array of career development services to at-risk young women and men, ages 16 to 24, to prepare them for successful careers. Job Corps employs a holistic career development training approach which integrates the teaching of academic, vocational, employability skills and social competencies through a combination of classroom, practical and based learning experiences to prepare youth for stable, long-term, high-paying jobs.