Save the Family Foundation of Arizona

Rapid Rehousing programs allow applicants to obtain housing of their choice in the East Valley through the use of move-in fees, utility set-ups, and rental stipends that decline over time. Applicants sign a lease themselves as the Case Coordinators work with them to increase income, decrease debt, and increase savings. These programs help those who have incomes below 50% of the Federal Annual Median Income.

This program is designed for chronically homeless and disabled families.

Youth close gaps in their K-12 education, increase their protective factors against violence and substance abuse, and explore various career and educational opportunities by participating in the following after school classes and activities:

Career and College-Readiness Exploration: Youth participate in activities and coursework that build on their natural interests in various careers and post-secondary educational opportunities. The classes include site visits to colleges and businesses, as well as guest speakers.
School Support: School-aged youth are connected to schools’ McKinney-Vento homelessness liaisons to help ensure that students stay enrolled in their schools of origin, if possible, and acquire needed outside supports. School enrollment, grades, and school behavior are monitored and interventions are provided when needed.
Intervention/Prevention Education: The curriculum includes targeted, evidence-based coursework in literacy, nutrition, anti-violence, dating violence, art, financial literacy, tutoring, online/mobile communication safety, pet therapy, physical health, sun and water safety, and more.
Extracurricular Activities: Youth participate in leadership, sports, music, and art workshops, lesson, camps, and other activities.

Family homelessness cannot be ended or avoided without addressing poverty, including unemployment and earned income at below a livable wage. Through individualized career development services, adults increase their ability to obtain higher-paying and/or more fulfilling jobs with assistance practicing their interviewing skills, learning standards of professional behavior, completing resumes and job applications, and job searching.

Children increase their cognitive and behavioral skills in small groups, receiving individualized staff attention, while their parents attend self-sufficiency improvement classes. Little Kids Works incorporates the Learning Basket® approach, through which we nurture children’s multiple intelligences, emphasize language development and pre-math and pre-reading skills, and help children further develop their self-confidence, self-image, and imagination. The Learning Basket was developed by the Center of Imaginal Education.

Affordable Rental Movement (ARM), provides long-term, affordable rental housing for working poor individuals and households to help you and/or your family grow and prosper. Tenants have access to after-school youth programming, budgeting assistance, as well as job assistance.

Step Up to Independence is an innovative new housing and supportive services program launched in 2019. Save the Family has partnered with local school districts to identify and serve families who are living on the brink of homelessness, before they end up sleeping on the streets or in a homeless shelter. This program focuses on establishing housing stability and building families' savings to use toward housing, education and training.