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April News from NAC!
Posted on Apr 10, 2026

April News from NAC!

Read our April 2026 Newsletter with all things NAC.

Turn Your Tax Dollars into Healing & Hope

Your Gift Stays Local, Your Impact is Immediate, Your Generosity Changes Lives

The Arizona Charitable Tax Credit gives you a powerful way to make an impact: redirect your tax dollars to a qualifying charitable organization like Native American Connections, and you'll support the healing and wellness of marginalized individuals across the Valley. Donate today.

NAC Integrated Health Presents Testingpalooza

FREE STI, BP, & Glucose Testing Available

This summer, NAC Integrated Health is proud to offer completely free STI, blood pressure, and glucose checks at both our Integrated Clinic and on the NAC Mobile Health Van. Join us for our kick-off Testingpalooza event at Madison Park on Friday, April 24th from 10am - 1pm, or call 480-741-0945 to schedule an appointment today. Learn more about our event.

Phoenix Resource Connection Meets 4/21

Spark Opportunity at PRC

Designed for meaningful connection, shared knowledge, and stronger referral pathways, we're excited to gather with our behavioral health network for April's Phoenix Resource Connection meet-up! Our series continues Tuesday, April 21st, with featured speaker Brittany Clark, Outreach & Experience Specialist, Solari Crisis & Human Services. RSVP or connect with our team for info about our next meeting.
RSVP for Phoenix Resource Connection on April 21 | Connect with our team for future PRC event

Introducing our 2026 Parade Theme...

Drum roll, please!

Without further ado, we're excited to present the 42nd Annual NAC Parade and PISVC Open House theme: "Voices That Shape Tomorrow"

On Saturday, October 10th, 2026, we'll bring together our community to celebrate Indigenous culture & heritage, centering expression, storytelling, and lived experience as forces of change. This year, our theme recognizes that the future is shaped not only by what we hold but by what we say, create, and speak into existence. Stay tuned for our registration opening this summer and join us to celebrate.

Want to get involved? Sponsor our parade or volunteer to help make this year's event the best yet.

 

HomeBase Youth Services Holds 1st Annual Basketball Tournament at the Kroc Center: This community initiative brought energy, hope, and opportunity to the young residents of NAC's HomeBase Phoenix & Surprise. Thank you to Phoenix Suns Phoenix Mercury Foundation for their support of this event!

NAC Awarded Community MVP at Arizona D-Backs Give Back Day! Thank you to the D-backs ownership, leadership, players, employees, partners, and fans for your unwavering commitment to our community and for your recognition during the D-Back Give Back Day. Congrats and thank you for your generosity with over $100 million in giving in our community!

Rent The Phoenix Indian School Visitor Center Venue, Meeting & Event Space in Phoenix, Arizona: Located at Steele Indian School Park near Central Ave and Indian School Rd, the Phoenix Indian School Visitor Center venue space is available for events and community meetings, with three flexible spaces and a commercial kitchen available to individuals and organizations. See if the PISVC venue is the right fit for your event.

Make An In-Kind Donation to Native American Connections: Now through the summer, NAC is collecting high needs items to support residents, clients, and neighbors in need. Check out a list of our highest needs and help us fill our giving inventory!

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A "chronically homeless" individual is defined to mean a homeless individual with a disability who lives either in a place not meant for human habitation, a safe haven, or in an emergency shelter or in an institutional care facility if the individual has been living in the facility for fewer than ninety (90) days and had been living in a place not meant for human habitation, a safe haven or in an emergency shelter immediately before entering the institutional care facility. In order to meet the ‘‘chronically homeless’’ definition, the individual also must have been living as described above continuously for at least twelve (12) months or on at least four (4) separate occasions in the last three (3) years, where the combined occasions total a length of time of at least twelve (12) months. Each period separating the occasions must include at least seven (7) nights of living in a situation other than a place not meant for human habitation, in an emergency shelter or in a safe haven.

Federal nondiscrimination laws define a person with a disability to include any (1) individual with a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities; (2) individual with a record of such impairment; or (3) individual who is regarded as having such an impairment. In general, a physical or mental impairment includes, but is not limited to, examples of conditions such as orthopedic, visual, speech and hearing impairments, cerebral palsy, autism, epilepsy, muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), developmental disabilities, mental illness, drug addiction, and alcoholism.