Phoenix Family Housing Corp

Phoenix Family's Youth Development Program's mission is to provide children living in low-income housing communities with purposeful experiences, positive relationships, and the support needed to become healthy, responsible, and caring adults. Our program helps low-income children meet the unique challenges they face, build self-esteem and pursue productive futures. Provided at 11 sites, the program is offered daily year-around during peak hours in a centralized community center, allowing for easy access and participation opportunities to all children. Each Phoenix Family center provides:

A safe place away from the negative influences of the street
Guidance, discipline, and values modeling from caring adult leaders.
Constructive youth development activities and programs in a supervised, supportive environment.
Access to comprehensive, coordinated services that meet the needs of our youth and their families.
Educational support, increased access to social, educational, and healthy activities, and goal-setting skills.
A future vision of a self-sufficient adulthood.

As people age, they invest more time and effort in meeting their basic needs. This combined with limited income means that many of those we serve are forced to make critical choices between paying for health care services, food, rent, utilities or other daily expenses. Phoenix Family's Senior Empowerment Program combats the barriers those we serve face in their daily life. Many, due to financial constraints, lack of transportation, physical and/or mental handicaps and a host of other factors, are isolated socially, physically and financially from the community at-large. A person’s quality of life is determined by more than his or her physical health status. By addressing the root causes, we help those we serve to find lasting solutions to complex problems. Our programs combine to promote independence, encourage greater self-reliance in order to increase participants’ ability to live active, independent lives and avoid early institutionalism.

Families First serves more than 4,550 people (1,743 families) living in low-income housing communities. The average annual family income of Families First participants is $12,487, with 62% of those we serve earning less than the federal poverty limit . We empower participants to overcome the barriers they face and achieve their full potential. Our programs address the root causes, so that participants can find lasting solutions to complex problems. By promoting independence, encouraging greater self-reliance, offering physical & psychological support & providing emergency relief in times of need, the stability of the home and, in turn, of the community increases. Families First offers a broad menu of supportive and programmatic services, which are available free of charge to each person living in the community.