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We are incredibly grateful for the recent grant funding we've received!
Native American Connections recently received a generous grant from the Diane & Bruce Halle Foundation to support Services for Homeless Youth and for Resident Children Services. Additionally, the Katz Amsterdam Charitable Trust awarded NAC $300,000 for General Support in recognition of NAC’s ongoing work in human services which align with their Racial Justice / Mental and Behavioral Health initiatives for 2023.
NAC provides the most comprehensive program for homeless youth, ages 18-26, in Maricopa County. HomeBase in Central Phoenix has 25 beds and HomeBase Surprise, opening later this year, will have 44 beds. These Low-barrier to entry shelters provide safe, secure housing, three meals a day, Case Managers and Case Aides, education, employment and financial counseling so that youth gain stability, life skills, and resources for independent adult living. NAC’s services for Resident Children provide safe, healthy activities afterschool and during the summer months for more than 400 school-age children in seven Affordable Housing sites.
Thank you to our generous grant funders! Your support will greatly benefit our clients, residents, and community!
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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.