ECS Outreach Programs
Directory of Outreach Programs
Bread of Life
168 W. Arizona
Holbrook, AZ 86025
928-524-3874
docwild@cybertrails.com
Contact Person: Mary Wilderman
Bread of Life is a short-term shelter that can house up to 30 persons. This shelter is for a time of up to 6 months and provides two meals per day. There are also emergency services of clothes and food as requested.
The residents have a social worker and a case manager that works with them on life skills. There is opportunity for the residents to attend the local college. They manage the funds for the Salvation Army in Holbrook. This entails working with transient assistance, bus tickets, providing a mailing address (post office) for homeless people.
Naco Wellness Initiative
2090 W. Martinez St.
Naco, AZ
520-432-4661 or 520-432-7006
seteo@netzero.com
Contact Person: Seth Polley
The NACO Wellness initiative provides health services to a vastly under-served, largely Hispanic and indigent population on both sides of the International Border between the USA and Mexico.
They provide the following services:
- Screening for diabetes, high blood pressure, and glaucoma
- Once a month mammogram screening, early detection and referral
- Health education class in Spanish and English, with focus on pre-natal care and diabetes
- Blanket distribution program during winter in coordination with DIF (Desarrollo Integral Familiar) department of the town of NACO, Sonora, Mexico
Primavera Foundation, Inc.
P. O. Box 65840
Tucson, AZ 85728
FAX: 520-299-6421
Contact Person: Ex. Director - Karen Uhlich
Assoc. Director - Andrew Davidson
The Primavera Foundation, Inc. was established in 1983 to respond to the increasing numbers of homeless people on the streets of Tucson. It's purpose is two-fold: to address the systemic causes of homelessness through a process of advocacy, education, and research; and to establish and operate service programs which offer innovative, cost effective solutions and which demonstrate the Foundation's principles in action.
• The Alamo
- Provides affordable shared housing for 25 men who are homeless but employed.
• Five Points Transitional Housing
- A six-month to 2-year transitional housing program for motivated men and women who are working at least 25 hours a week.
- Provides a clean and sober environment with an emphasis on community living.
- Each resident must participate in case management
• Las Casitas
- This is a 12 unit permanent housing facility for income-qualified families.
- Two bedroom, two bath units
• Men's Emergency Shelter
- This is a 110-bed facility for men which provides three meals a day, laundry, haircuts, and referrals
• Casa Paloma
- Focused on unaccompanied homeless women.
- Drop-in center for women only and houses up to nine women only.
- Designed to address the needs of older homeless women
• Employment Services
- Connects motivated homeless workers with employers in the community
- Provides job readiness classes
- Provides interviewing, application, skill identification, and job searching planning
• Relief & Referral
- Storefront outreach center for homeless individuals and families
- Services include: mailing address, mail and message pick-up, telephone, bathroom, and the distribution of donated toiletries, clothing, blankets, house wares, and food.
- Social worker available assists people in crisis
St. Andrew's Children's Clinic
969 Country Club
Nogales, AZ 85621
520-648-3242
standrewsaz@qwest.net
Contact Person: Lucie Thomas
For more than 25 years, St. Andrew's Clinic has been a beacon for the indigent disabled children of Northern Mexico.
The Clinic is held the first Thursday of every month.
- Features care for infants to young adults with chronic and severe health problems
- Children receive physical, speech, and vision therapy, nutritional counseling and supplies such as hearing tests and hearing aids that are maintained monthly.
- Sites for any needed surgery are recommended by the attending pediatricians, neurologists and orthopedic surgeons
- Every family bringing a child to the clinic is given food dispensed by volunteers for snacks and a hot lunch. Each family is also given a large bag of groceries to carry home.
- Parents of the children are given instruction and training in meeting the special needs of their child
St. Paul's Jubilee Center
HC 1 Box 630
Strawberry, AZ 85544
928-289-3851
NormanBurke@direcway.com
Contact Person: Norman Burke
Elderly Ministry
- Nursing home visitations
- Provision of medical supplies as needed
Medical Supply Loan Outreach
- Medical Supplies are available on loan to anyone who needs them - wheel chairs, crutches, walkers, bed commodes, etc.
- A parish nurse manages the medical supply distribution
Youth outreach
- Dealing effectively with issues of sex, drugs, alcohol, and self-esteem
- Work is being done with youth and their families
- Strong substance abuse counseling
Domestic Violence
- Alice's Place - domestic violence shelter
- Work closely with Winslow Guidance Association
- Drug and alcohol counseling center
All Saints Jubilee Center
210 West Main Street
Safford, AZ 85546
928-348-9430
allsaints210@hotmail.com
Contact Person: Eugenia M. Durham
We serve the needs of the Gila Valley by providing food, water, and financial assistance to low income and the homeless.
We provide financial assistance to CHAP Ministries, which has opened shelters in our area, and to Gila Resources for utility assistance.
We provide food boxes to the Bylas community on the San Carlos Apache Reservation at Thanksgiving and Christmas
Trinity Community Health Services
100 W. Roosevelt Street
Phoenix, AZ 85003
602-254-7126
john@trinitycahtedral.com
Contact Person: John Mather
- Prevention Health and Educational Screening Service
- Community Outreach Services
- Development of Community Center and Clinic
Access to preventive health care is made available at very affordable prices. We provide these services to poor and oppressed at no charge.
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church Outreach
1000 Arroyo Pinon Dr.
Sedona, AZ 86336
928-282-4459
standrews@sedona.net
Contact Person: Mary T. L. Piotrowski
Open Meal
- This meal is for everyone who wishes to come every Monday. A full meal is provided, as is supplemental food for the week.
Sedona Literacy Center
- Non-profit independent tutoring program
- One-on-one tutoring up to about 30 at-risk students from the Sedona grade school twice a week
Compassion in Action
- Ecumenical institutional consortium initiated by the Jewish Community. Current members: St. Andrews,
Christ Lutheran, St. John Vianney Roman Catholic of the Red Rocks, UCC.
- Together we have developed a clinic in Sedona for under-insured and uninsured persons in cooperation with
Yavapai County Health Dept. and the Arizona Dept. of Health.
- Specialist services provided through the local hospital as well as a network of contributing doctors
Center for Health and Reconciliation
12990 E. Shea Blvd.
Scottsdale, AZ 85259
480-451-7792
jimdavis@stanthony.net
Contact Person: Jim Davis
Outreach:
• Health education: seminars and forums for adults and teens regarding health and spirituality
• Medical Evaluation/Testing: Free evaluations, e.g., blood pressure, seasonal immunizations.
• Mourner's Path: bereavement support sessions consisting of 8 week course, held at least twice annually
• ASAP Adolescents: leadership and character building program for middle school students through a 12-week after school program held twice annually
• Healing Services: healing services with anointing after every Sunday service and Thursday noon service
• All programs and services provided based on the assumption that healing and spirituality is a basic human right, and all should be treated with dignity.
Bridging AZ Furniture Bank
25 N. Extension Rd.
Mesa, AZ 85201
480-833-9594
info@bridgingaz.org
Contact Person: James P. Piscopo
Outreach:
- Bridging Arizona Furniture Bank serves many aspects of the community. Their ministry provides services to families, men & women including those who may have been homeless.
- A warehouse facility with furniture and household supplies
- Most people served are from the lower economic population including welfare & homeless
- The Furniture Bank receives referrals from social agencies in the area and the recipients come to the warehouse and select the furniture needed for their newly assigned housing accommodations.
Mission Statement
- to insure that on one within our reach is sleeping on the floor
- to ease the transitioning burden from homeless to housing, thereby strengthening family functioning and providing a more stable home environment
Food for Life
545 S. 5th Ave.
Tucson, AZ 85702
520-861-0749
jbailey@saaf.org
Contact Person: Jefferson Bailey
This is basically a food program:
- meals are cooked in the Church kitchen and then delivered daily to persons with HIV/AIDS who are no longer mobile
- three meals are provided daily
- 3-4 times per year there are meals in the Parish hall for all their clients and all of the volunteers from the Church
- there is also a pantry for anyone who needs food
- Some of the volunteers are also some of the clients and in this sense the clients are empowered to also do for others
- This program provides cooking skills classes for some of their clients
- The program is operated by 20-25 volunteers from the church and the local Neighborhood Association
Good Shepherd of the Hills Episcopal Church
P. O. Box 110
Ave Creek, AZ 85327
480-488-3283
goodshepherdaz@msn.com
Contact Person: Glenn Jenks
Outreach:
• Cave Creek Day Workers Program. System for connecting day workers with work opportunity. Provide coffee and pastries; assigned work based on their skills and capabilities; for safety reasons, volunteers watch who workers leave with. Other direct services: health care when needed, intervention with landlords, coordination of lunch program, job skill advisement, clothing and food when needed, and once, provision of a college scholarship to one of the workers! To ensure ownership and support a sense of dignity, each worker pays $1 per day.
• Gold Mine Thrift Shop. Low-cost clothing and household items in a boutique-like setting, and a gathering spot for fellowship. Proceeds support church outreach projects.
• Honduran Women's/Children's Education Project. Two parishioners travel to Honduras 3 times a year, spending one week on site training eight community health educators who then provide service and education to four barrios (program emphasizes using local resources instead of supplied provided from outside). Parish now supplies scholarships for 40 children to attend secondary school and bicycles for transportation.
• Watoto Program in Kampala, Uganda. Housing and care for orphans and widows affected by AIDS. Parish volunteers will visit in 2005 to help build a group home for a widow, caring for 8 orphans.
• Nairobi Project. Two parish volunteers will travel again to Nairobi to help educate local pastors in providing services and building communities in the slum areas.
• Other outreach projects, include providing material resources (goods and funds are donated by parishioners) to established programs in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Maggie's Place serves homeless pregnant women and their newborn children; Marcus' House cares for abandoned children, from birth to 5 years old; Prison Fellowship provides holiday gifts for children of incarcerated parents; Fairy godmothers is a work group that meets once monthly to craft projects (blankets, cuddly bears, teaching aids) requested by community groups; Food Bank provides up to 10 food bags per day.
E.T.E.P.S. - Empowerment Through Education Project for Sudanese Students
114 W. Roosevelt Street
Phoenix, AZ 85003
602-254-976 or 602-274-6350
EMSmi@aol.com
Contact Person: Evie Smith
This is primarily a Scholarship program for the education of what is usually called "The Lost Boys of Sudan" We provide scholarships for their education of up to $500.00 per semester.
There is an advisory board for E.T.E.P.S., which consists of members from the Episcopal Church and members from the Sudanese Community. This means that the Sudanese have and are being empowered to direct the program.
There is a strong advocacy component to the program as well. Mrs. Evie Smith has established a partnership relationship with Phoenix Community College (where the majority of the students attend school) The purpose of this partnership is to advocate for these Sudanese students: For Example:
- a refugee has an I-94 immigration status and that qualifies him/her for a Pell Grant
- within a year the refugee applies for permanent residency. This means that they are no longer qualified for any grants or financial aid from the College. This process takes anywhere from one to three years
- once a refugee becomes a permanent resident, he/she may apply for citizenship and the opportunity to qualify for an educational grant becomes available again.
What all this implies is that there is a period of about one to three years in which these Sudanese students are not able to qualify for any financial aid to continue their educatio
