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CASA DE LOS NIÑOS worthwhile causes throughout the state. All of our members
recognize the importance of support organizations helping children
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Lisa Webster, the nonpro t’s Director of Development and Hernandez, Deputy County School Superintendent and Chief
Community Relations, said in an email response that in the past Financial O cer, Pima County School Superintendent’s O ce,
year alone, Casa de los Niños helped thousands of children in noted that Casa de los Niños has been in Tucson for more than 40
a multitude of ways, including behavioral and mental health years.
therapy, in-home family support services, and newborns and their “ eir number one goal is the well-being of kids,” Hernandez
moms through the Nurse-Family Partnership, to ensure a healthy said in an email. “ ey provide safe, secure and nurturing foster
pregnancy and the rst two years of the child’s life. homes for kids, outside of shelters; they facilitate visitations to help
When it comes to situations involving abused kids, Webster said, families reunite a er kids have been removed their homes; they
“We provide a wide array of services to ensure that we can meet any help kids deal with trauma. ey provide education and outreach
and every family’s needs, including vital prevention and education by o ering parenting strategies, including working with new,
resources. We have a sta of 300 professionals who work day and night pregnant moms and helping parents prepare with their toddlers
to be responsive to ongoing treatment as well as crisis situations.” when starting schools. ey also work in providing behavioral
Casa de los Niños stresses family stability as a vital aspect of health services to kids and young adults.”
helping children. Casa de los Niños has a major presence in the child welfare
“For a child to experience ‘well-being,’ they need to have a stable community in Tucson, Hernandez said. He explained how he
and supportive family environment,” Webster said. “If the child’s became aware of the good deeds the nonpro t performs: “ ey
parents are in crisis – dealing with mental health issues, substance do incredible things to support the well-being of kids and families
abuse, su ering the e ects of poverty – it is very di cult for a child in the Tucson area, and my working in public education there has
to thrive. In order to help a child, we must help the whole family.” been an increased awareness of kids in foster care.”
Casa de los Niños plans to use the AASBO donation to “ensure Because he was chairman of last summer’s AASBO Conference
that we can continue to respond quickly and therapeutically to any and Expo, Hernandez had the responsibility to select a nonpro t
and all kids and families who come to us in need,” Webster said. organization for the donations from the Duck Race.
Lewis stated: “It is very gratifying to see the generous
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