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Professional Education for Special Needs Family Support

01 Professional Education for Special Needs Family Support · 33 edit slice
9
orgs
33
activities
7
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 9 organizations and 33 activities — DAMES Charities Inc DBA Care 4 the Caregivers, PILOT PARENTS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA, THE COHEN INSTITUTE FOR STUDENT LEARNING AND MENTAL HEALTH, SKYES THE LIMIT FOUNDATION and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (100%). The field's most common shared approach is "Person-Centered Empowerment", run by 4 orgs.
who to look at first

shortlist

Ranked by activity breadth, method diversity, and network reach across the slice. Attach a memo to this report and this list re-ranks around your intent.

where this slice is thin

gap signals

Concrete structural gaps — method mix, geographic concentration, coalition density, funder diversity. Evidence is cited from the slice's own numbers.

where the field lives · works

geography

Orange headquarters dots are sized by how many grantees are based in the state. Green circles mark real locations these orgs say they serve — from city-level populations in this slice's impact_map_populations data. Toggle layers at the bottom right.

regional breakdown · hq density
Arizona 100% · 9 orgs
who's here

organizations in this field · 9

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where the money comes from

funders already active in this field

Funders named as a funding source on these orgs' own materials. The count is the number of orgs in this slice that cite them — higher means a funder with demonstrable commitment to the field.

AHCCCS 1
Government
Arizona Department of Economic Security, Division of Developmental Disabilities 1
Government
Arizona Department of Education 1
Government
Arizona Department of Health Services 1
Government
Arizona Developmental Disability Planning Council 1
Government
Arizona Qualifying Charitable Organization (QCO) Tax Credit 1
Individuals
Federal Department of Education Office of Special Education Rehabilitation Services 1
Government
Governor’s Office of Youth, Faith and Family through Arizona’s Parent Commission 1
Government
Maricopa County Department of Public Health 1
Government
Office of Population Affairs, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 1
Government
Open Horizon 1
Foundation
Private donors and friends 1
Individuals
The Arizona Coalition for Family Support and Self-Determination 1
Foundation
how the field thinks

strategies in this slice

Theories of action extracted from the orgs in this slice. The count is how many orgs cite each one — a strategy run by many orgs in common is a through-line; one cited by a single org is still surfaced so the reader can gauge the full spread.

where strategy meets practice

strategies × activity types

How each shared strategy breaks down across the four activity types the orgs running it actually do.

direct service
advocacy
research
capacity building
Person-Centered Empowerment
4
9
Holistic Youth Development
9
Trauma-Informed Care
5
2
Community-Led Systems Change
2
Financial Burden Alleviation
2
Peer-Led Capacity Building
5
Story-Centered Engagement
2
who works with whom

named partnerships · coalitions · networks

Entities these orgs explicitly call out as partners, coalition members, or networks. Unlike the strategy-sharing graph below (which is inferred from shared approaches), these are relationships the orgs claim on their own sites.

community organizations Partner
shared by 2 orgs
healthcare providers Partner
shared by 2 orgs
schools Partner
shared by 2 orgs
211 Arizona Partner
shared by 1 org
ACA Government
shared by 1 org
AHCCCS Government
shared by 1 org
AZ Department of Health Services Funder
shared by 1 org
AZ Partners in Leadership Partner
shared by 1 org
Agua Fria Union High School District Partner
shared by 1 org
Alhambra Elementary School District Partner
shared by 1 org
Argosy University Partner
shared by 1 org
Arizona Association of School Psychologists Partner
shared by 1 org
Arizona Center Partner
shared by 1 org
Arizona Center for Disability Law Partner
shared by 1 org
Arizona Commission on the Arts Funder
shared by 1 org
Arizona Department of Child Safety Government
shared by 1 org
where the field connects

strategy-sharing network

Inferred from shared theories of action: each line connects an org to a strategy it runs. Organizations that share many strategies cluster through the same nodes — funders can spot the field's structural bridges.

scale of the field

rollup metrics

Aggregated scale claims from orgs in the slice. Treat as a floor, not a ceiling — many orgs don't publish these numbers, so totals underrepresent real reach. Extreme outliers (often unit-mismatches upstream) are filtered out.

2K
People served
from 2 orgs