The Honorable Amanda Aguirre, State Senator LD 24
The Honorable Sharon Bronson, Pima County Supervisor
The Honorable Olivia Cajero Bedford, State Representative LD 27
The Honorable Richard Elías, Pima County Supervisor
The Honorable Raúl M. Grijalva, U.S. Congressman AZ 7
Dr. Marilyn Heins, M.D., Pediatrician, and parenting educator
José Ibarra, Former Tucson City Council Member
The Honorable Steve Leal, Tucson City Council Member
The Honorable Linda Lopez, State Representative LD 29
The Reverend Briget Nicholson, United Church of Christ
The Reverend N. Jean Rogers, Episcopal Church
The Honorable Lena Saradnik, State Representative LD 26
Dr. Eve Shapiro, MD, MPH, Pediatrician
Dr. Patricia Strempel, MD, Pediatrician
The Honorable Nina Trasoff, Tucson City Council Vice Mayor and City Council Member
The Honorable Karin Uhlich, Tucson City Council Member
The Honorable Ramón O. Valadez, Pima County Supervisor

Partnership Group

Brewster Center Domestic Violence Services
Brewster Center Domestic Violence Services provides safer options and support to all victims/survivors of domestic violence through individual empowerment, advocacy, shelter, prevention, community education, and social change.

Catalina United Methodist Church
Serving others is the other half of the Gospel at Catalina. In 2005 over 20% of our budget went directly to "Mission and Outreach" by helping others in our community and in our world. “Changing lives by serving others” is our mission.

Child & Family Resources, Inc., is a private, nonprofit, community-based organization that has made a meaningful contribution to the children of Southern Arizona since 1970. The agency’s mission is to improve the well-being of Arizona's children and families through programs that strengthen child care, youth, and families.

CODAC Behavioral Health Services, Inc.
CODAC Behavioral Health Services of Pima County, Inc., works collaboratively with individuals, families, and organizations to eliminate the harmful effects of substance use disorders, mental illness, and abuse on their lives and their communities.

The Community Foundation for Southern Arizona is made up of more than 450 funds representing individuals, families, organizations, and corporations in Pima and Santa Cruz counties.  The foundation’s mission is to work with charitably minded individuals and organizations to strengthen southern Arizona communities.

Community Prevention Coalition
The CPC is a group of partners committed to preventing the onset and reducing the progression of substance abuse including childhood and underage drinking, reducing substance abuse-related problems in communities across Arizona, and building prevention capacity and infrastructure at the state and local levels.

Devereux Arizona provides treatment programs and community services to children, adults, and families experiencing behavioral challenges brought on by abuse, neglect, mental illness, and/or substance abuse.  Included in the array of behavioral health and social welfare services offered are foster care programs and prevention programs.

The Institute for Children, Youth and Families seeks to increase the capacity of the University of Arizona to support research, education, and outreach programs that address the most critical social, emotional, and physical issues facing today's families. ICYF is founded on the Land Grant philosophy and thus is dedicated to creating and sharing knowledge that will contribute to the optimal growth and development of children, youth, and families.

Luz Southside Coalition
Luz Southside Coalition is dedicated to addressing community substance abuse prevention and its consequences and associated problems, such as juvenile crime, school dropouts, teen pregnancy, and alcohol and drug use.  The coalition has a grassroots approach and wide reach into Tucson's Latino community.  It uses coalition building, capacity building, community development and organization, information sharing, and public awareness and advocacy to strengthen community.

Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona
The mission of the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health is to promote the health of individuals and communities with a special emphasis on diverse populations and the Southwest.  The UA Zuckerman College of Public Health provides both undergraduate and graduate education in population-based health disciplines to prepare students for professional and academic public health careers.  It is currently the only nationally accredited college of public health in the 12-state Mountain/Pacific region.


The Metropolitan Education Commission (MEC), composed of 34 Citizen Commissioners, advises, makes recommendations, and serves as an advocate in all areas as they affect the educational welfare of Tucson and Pima County.  MEC's goals are to empower and advocate for students, their teachers, and their families; to acknowledge individuals and groups within the community whose exemplary service to students and education merits such special recognition; and to promote graduation from high school as a first step toward an enriched future for students and a realistic sense of their place within the community.

Mexican American Studies & Research Center, University of Arizona
The Mexican American Studies & Research Center is committed to contemporary applied public policy research on Mexican Americans. As the leading public policy research center addressing issues of concern to this minority group in Arizona, the MASRC works collaboratively with key community agencies in promoting leadership and empowerment of Mexican Americans within the state and the nation. The Center achieves these goals through its applied research agenda, through its publications, and through the comprehensive curriculum it offers students at the University of Arizona. As an intellectual center, it disseminates information to a broad audience, which includes elected officials, educators, students, policy makers and other researchers.

Neighborhood Coordinator/Promotora del Barrio (TUSD)
Neighborhood Coordinators build community from the inside out. They recognize what already exists in the community (its assets) and from there they can develop knowledge in the following areas: Education and Leadership; Human Rights and Immigration; Death and Illness; Environmental Health; Personal Health (Physical, Mental, Intellectual, Spiritual and Social); Politics; and Healthy Neighborhoods.

Our Family Services
Our Family was created by the merger of Family Counseling Agency and OUR TOWN. With a combined history of more than 75 years of service to our community, our experience and expertise span a comprehensive range of services addressing the needs of at-risk children, youth, families, seniors and neighborhoods.

Parenting Arizona is a statewide nonprofit agency with a mission to strengthen families and prevent child abuse and neglect.  Offered in a nonjudgmental atmosphere of trust and confidentiality, services help to stabilize families and eliminate violence toward children through parent education and support with the philosophy that healthy parenting is the cornerstone to a safe and fruitful childhood.

Pima County/Tucson Women's Commission
The mission of the Pima County/Tucson Women's Commission is to expose, eliminate, and prevent discrimination against women and to assist women in attaining full equality of opportunity in all aspects of life. The Women's Commission is specifically empowered to represent the rights and needs of the women of Tucson and Pima County, to investigate women's issues, to conduct hearings, to compile reports, and to make recommendations to the mayor and city council and to the Pima County Board of Supervisors.

Pro-choice Clergy
Pro-Choice Clergy aims to find and raise unapologetically our own voices as religious leaders in support of family
planning, quality reproductive health care and sex education, free decision-making by women facing unintended pregnancies,
and reducing unintended pregnancies.

Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation
Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation (SAAF) strives to create and sustain a healthier community through a compassionate, comprehensive response to HIV/AIDS.

Southern Arizona Center Against Sexual Assault
The mission of the Southern Arizona Center Against Sexual Assault is to reduce the trauma and incidence of sexual violence by providing treatment and promoting prevention of sexual abuse, incest, molestation and rape.  The Center will accomplish this through the provision of services including crisis intervention, specialized mental health services, advocacy, prevention education and professional training.

Sunnyside Unified School District aims to ensure that all students achieve academic success and contribute positively to a diverse, changing, democratic society.  The district operates 13 elementary schools, five middle schools, and three high schools, including one alternative education school, and serves 16,889 students.

University of Arizona National Center of Excellence in Women's Health
The mission of UA’s National CoE in Women’s Health is to improve health and promote wellness of all women throughout the lifecycle. The UA National CoE is led by a distinguished and diverse group of UA administrators, clinicians, and researchers with input from community members. The staff is committed to the idea that women deserve health care that supports their unique needs in every stage of their lives; is based on the most recent scientific evidence, and is sensitive to their language, culture, beliefs and lifestyle.

Westside Coalition Weed & Seed Steering Committee
Westside Coalition Weed & Seed uses an innovative and comprehensive approach to community revitalization, crime prevention, and law enforcement.  It invites neighborhood residents, law enforcement agencies, human service providers, public officials, schools, churches, and business to work together in the shared goal of weeding out the violent crime and seeding in social and economic revitalization.

Wingspan is Southern Arizona's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community center. Wingspan's mission is to promote the freedom, equality, safety and well-being of LGBT people.

Women's Foundation of Southern Arizona
The mission of the Women's Foundation of Southern Arizona is to foster equity and opportunity for women and girls.  One of more than a hundred women's funds globally, the foundation advances women's leadership and philanthropy by raising, managing, and granting money to meet the unique needs of women and girls.

Youth on their Own
Youth on their Own serves students in Pima County schools who, through no fault of their own, find their lives disrupted by the lack of safe, permanent housing and parental support.  The organization provides financial assistance, basic human needs, and guidance to over 8,600 homeless teens so each has the opportunity to graduate high school and lead a productive adult life.  

YWCA Tucson
The mission of YWCA Tucson is to create opportunities for women's growth, leadership, and power and to eliminate racism wherever it exists.  To this end, YWCA Tucson offers programs in the areas of social services, financial education for women, women’s leadership development, health education, and racial justice.  In addition, specific programs are offered for young women and youth.