Company Profile
Arizona Youth Partnership
Company Overview
Arizona Youth Partnership (AzYP) based in Tucson, Arizona, works with youth and families across the state to bring resources to rural and under-served communities. Since 1990, AzYP has made great strides in reaching Arizona’s children, youth, and families in 29 communities in 9 counties.
AzYP’s mission is to partner with communities to cultivate healthy foundations for youth and promote strong families. AzYP’s programs utilize a three-pronged strategy: Mobilizing Communities, Cultivating Healthy Foundations for Youth and Promoting Strong Families.
Company History
Arizona Youth Partnership's mission is to work in partnership with communities to cultivate healthy foundations for youth and promote strong families. We were formed by a group of Pima County citizens concerned that the rural communities in the county were not afforded the same resources for youth and families available in the Tucson metro area.
Initially we offered teen pregnancy prevention programs (e.g. curriculum-based instruction, youth development/peer leadership) began in 1997 in Pima County serving 600 youth. Over the past 20 years, AzYP has grown the program to 29 communities in nine (9) counties across Arizona using funding from the Arizona Department of Health Services and Federal grants from the Administration of Children and Families.
Arizona Youth Partnership has managed grants at the Federal, State and Local level. Examples include grants from the Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Administration of Children and Families, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP), and Center for Mental Health Services.
In the past 20 years, AzYP has administered eight (8) federal prevention grants that include family strengthening, Drug Free Communities, Community Based Abstinence Education, Healthy Marriages, community development, youth violence prevention, abstinence-based education, and lifeskills in 23 rural communities across 7 counties in Arizona. AzYP has been the recipient of 4 grants from the Governor’s Office for Children, Youth and Families, the T.E.A.M. Project targeting youth in Pima and Pinal Counties, and 3 Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grants (SPF-SIG) in Globe/Miami, Kingman, and Lake Havasu City. At the federal level, AzYP was the recipient of a Drug Free Communities Program grant, a Healthy Marriages grant and a Community-Based Abstinence Education grant.
Since 1997, AzYP has successfully provided healthy relationship education and community based programs through Office of Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenting Programs (1997-2001) and State of AZ Title V abstinence education program (1998-2004), and SPRANS/Community-Based Abstinence Education (2004-2010).
New Strategic Initiatives
Open Doors Community School, Inc is a subsidiary non-profit established by Arizona Youth Partnership (AzYP) formed for the purpose of applying to open a K-8 charter school in rural Marana, AZ. Open Doors Community School represents an opportunity to integrate AzYP’s proven programs into our own small public school environment focused on academic excellence, removing barriers to learning and opening doors of opportunity for our students and their families through the Community School model. In November 2010, as part of a strategic plan to deepen the impact of our programs, the AzYP Board of Directors determined to seek a charter from the Arizona State Board of Charter Schools to open a charter school in rural Marana that integrates an academic success program with our proven prevention programs.
The founding of Open Doors Community School fulfills a vision to deliver a quality academic success program in one of our initial communities of focus in Arizona—the Town of Marana. The opening of this school contingent on Open Doors Community School securing a charter from the Arizona State Board for Charter Schools in January 2012.
Notable Accomplishments / Recognition
AzYP delivers evidence-based programs to build futures of hope for youth and their families in rural and underserved communities across Arizona. Recently, our "Healthy Marriages/Strong Families" program was selected as a "Promising Practice" by the US Dept. of Health & Human Services' Administration for Children & Families, Office of Family Assistance.