During the month of April, Superstition Springs Center Kids Club will be collecting donations of diapers for the Child Crisis Center every Thursday from 10 to 11 a.m.

You can help strengthen families in your community and prevent child abuse by being a volunteer at Mesa’s Child Crisis Center. Once a week, volunteers come to the center at 604 W. 9th Street to play with children ages birth to 11 and to help staff with other work as needed.

The East Valley Child Crisis Center holds a “slab party” at 10 a.m. today to celebrate pouring the concrete slab on its new Family Resource Center.

Mesa's Child Crisis Center announced this week it received a $200,000 grant from The Bob & Renee Parsons Foundation. Child Crisis Center is a private, nonprofit agency committed to the prevention of child abuse and neglect.

The East Valley Child Crisis Center, Girls on the Run and ASU’s KAET-TV (Channel 8) are among the groups that will receive a total of $406,600 in grants from the Fiesta Bowl.

About six months ago, a child named Carmen was being neglected and abused by her stepfather. After he was arrested, Carmen was sent to the East Valley Child Crisis Center in Mesa.

For 25 years, East Valley children in cold, desperate straits have been able to seek the warm light of the East Valley Child Crisis Center, which since 1981 has been a safe haven from cruelty and neglect as well as a font of resources for families.

A local teacher's attempt at a significant fundraising effort with her students and those of another classroom went better than expected. It turned out so successful that she plans on incorporating it into her classroom in future years.

December 30, 2004

You can be a part of preventing child abuse and helping heal kids who have been hurt by volunteering at Mesa's Child Crisis Center. Through several programs, the agency supports and strengthens families, provides a safe place for children to heal, and recruits, trains and supports foster and adoptive families.

Student bands will battle this evening at Dobson High School to benefit the Child Crisis Center in Mesa.

Babies and small children are overwhelming Arizona’s foster care system, and the state could face a lawsuit if it doesn’t do something soon to reduce their numbers and shorten their stays in shelters and group homes.

Knowing all the while that it’s impossible to prevent child abuse and neglect, hundreds of the state’s top child welfare experts have spent the better part of four months trying.

Ballet was always on Linda Stuart’s mind when she was a child. Classes had to be free, though, because her mother was divorced and they didn’t have enough money for formal dance school.

Tempe Elementary School District is facing low student achievement and major budgetary shortfalls that could lead to the closing of some schools.

The number of babies and small children waiting in Arizona shelters and group homes for a permanent solution to their disrupted lives is declining, but it may not be fast enough to forestall a lawsuit against the state’s child welfare system.

The number of babies and small children waiting in Arizona shelters and group homes for a permanent solution to their disrupted lives is declining, but it may not be fast enough to forestall a lawsuit against the state’s child welfare system.

An annual report on Arizona child fatalities for the first time identifies children who died because they were not properly supervised or cared for, including 23 children whose deaths were attributed to neglect.

The organization Chicktime Mesa is seeking women volunteers to help kids recovering from abuse or neglect at Mesa’s Child Crisis Center. Whatever your passion may be — cooking, gardening, crafts, mechanics, sports, banking — Chicktime can help you turn your interests into something that serves children in need.

The East Valley Child Crisis Center is preparing to break ground on a new building as it celebrates 25 years of caring for abused and neglected children. The $4.5 million expansion will double capacity and bring the group’s family resource center and counseling center together under one roof at Country Club Road and 8th Street.

December 4, 2004

A 3-year-old Phoenix boy was killed Friday afternoon in a two-vehicle collision at the intersection of Scottsdale Road and Dynamite Boulevard in Scottsdale.

Thousands of Arizonans are going to lose services as the state Department of Economic Security cuts its funding.

Arizona’s gubernatorial candidates vow in the face of a fiscal crisis to streamline state government while taking better care of children.