OCJ KIDS

Provides essential resources to DCS case workers for children entering foster care and offers emergency removal resources statewide to children upon removal from their homes.

Offers a financial literacy series for youth, covering financial management skills like banking, budgeting, investing, and coping with abuse-related trauma.

Trains and deploys caring adults to provide games, activities, and tutoring in 160 group homes across the state for foster youth, assigning mentors based on schedule and availability.

Prepares youth for independent living after they exit foster care by providing ongoing support and resources, including mentors, and offers free cell phones with text, data, and minutes for up to 6 months to youth exiting foster care at age 18, contingent on monthly check-ins with an adult.

OCJ KIDS offers a financial literacy series for youth, covering essential financial management skills such as banking, budgeting, investing, and coping with abuse-related trauma.

OCJ KIDS provides a financial literacy series for youth, covering essential financial management skills such as banking, budgeting, investing, and coping with abuse-related trauma.

OCJ KIDS operates the Restoring Dignity Boutique, a program that helps young women understand their bodies, minds, and safety, and provides resources for churches to replicate this model.

OCJ KIDS operates the Restoring Dignity Boutique, a program designed to help young women understand their bodies, minds, and safety, and provides resources for churches to replicate this model.

OCJ KIDS prepares youth for independent living after they exit foster care by providing ongoing support, resources, and mentors. This includes offering free cell phones for up to 6 months to youth exiting foster care at age 18, contingent on monthly check-ins with an adult.

OCJ KIDS provides essential resources and supplies, including school supplies through its annual Tools 4 Success program, and emergency removal resources statewide for children entering foster care. They also facilitate the creation of Go Kits, Cuddle Bags, and Welcome Kits for foster children and youth in group homes.

OCJ KIDS provides essential resources, including school supplies through its annual Tools 4 Success program, emergency removal resources statewide, and various kits (Go Kits, Cuddle Bags, Welcome Kits) for foster children and youth in group homes, often through volunteer efforts.

OCJ KIDS offers ongoing support and resources, including mentors and free cell phones for up to 6 months (contingent on monthly check-ins), to youth exiting foster care at age 18 to help them achieve independent living.

OCJ KIDS offers in-person trauma training for youth aged 15 and up to help them heal from toxic stress and manage triggers, and provides trauma training for caregivers to understand and support young people affected by trauma.

OCJ KIDS offers in-person trauma training for youth aged 15 and up to help them heal from toxic stress and manage triggers. They also provide trauma training for caregivers to help them understand the impacts of toxic stress and childhood trauma and offer strategies to support affected young people.

Operates the Restoring Dignity Boutique, a program designed to help young women understand their bodies, minds, and safety, and provides resources for churches to replicate this model.

Operates an annual Tools 4 Success program to provide school supplies for foster children returning to school, facilitating relationship-building activities between community volunteers and foster children at group homes during the program.

OCJ KIDS partners with 160 group homes across Arizona to provide programs and support for foster youth, including deploying caring adult volunteers to facilitate games, activities, and tutoring, and building relationships between volunteers and children.

OCJ KIDS partners with 160 group homes across the state to provide programs and support for foster youth, including deploying caring adults to offer games, activities, and tutoring. They also facilitate relationship-building activities between community volunteers and foster children during the Tools 4 Success program.

Provides in-person trauma training for youth aged 15 and up, teaching strategies to heal from toxic stress and trauma and manage triggers, and offers trauma training for caregivers to help them understand the impacts of toxic stress and childhood trauma, and provides strategies to support young people affected by trauma.

Provides volunteer opportunities to build Go Kits, Cuddle Bags, Welcome Kits, and other packages for foster children and youth in foster group homes, and offers group volunteering opportunities for building resource kits, sorting and packing school supply bags, and wrapping individual Christmas gifts. Additionally, provides an instructional guide for community groups and churches to collect, build, and deliver resources to Child Services.

OCJ KIDS conducts Mentor Training workshops for volunteers, including specific dates at City Church PHX, and provides phone mentor training for volunteers supporting aged-out youth through the OCJ Kids T-Mobile Phone Program.

OCJ KIDS organizes various volunteer opportunities, including preparing school supply bags, wrapping gifts at summer and winter outreach events, building resource kits, and sorting and packing school supply bags.

OCJ KIDS provides an instructional guide for community groups and churches to collect, build, and deliver resources to Child Services.

OCJ KIDS conducts Mentor Training workshops for volunteers, including phone mentor training for those supporting aged-out youth through the OCJ Kids T-Mobile Phone Program. They assign mentors to foster residential group homes based on schedule and availability.

Conducts Mentor Training workshops for volunteers, including specific dates at City Church PHX, and provides phone mentor training for volunteers to support aged-out youth through the OCJ Kids T-Mobile Phone Program, including guidance on directing youth to resources.