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Donations made to Native American Connections by December 31st qualify for the Arizona Charitable Tax Credit. Donate up to $200 (filing as a single adult) or up to $400 (filing as a married couple) and you can receive a dollar for dollar credit on your Arizona income taxes. This means if you donate $200 and you don't owe taxes, you will get back the $200!
Donations to NAC support our efforts at Changing Lives and Building Healthy Communities.....
Housing
We take pride in creating affordable housing for families where neighbors know one another. Kids are encouraged to play outdoors and parents know they are in a safe and positive environment. Parenting classes, financial literacy seminars and healthy living programs help to build family stability.
Formerly homeless men and women have a home with a kitchen to cook their own meals and a safe bed to rest at night. Caring staff help residents deal with health issues, addiction or mental illness. With the right support, our residents will gain stability, increase their independence and reduce the chances they return to homelessness.
Homeless youth live at the HomeBase Transitional Living Program and learn independent living skills while we get them connected to jobs, education opportunities and housing.
Behavioral Health & Traditional Healing
Using traditional healing methods like sweat lodges and burning sage, we acknowledge the importance of culture when healing a wounded spirit. We also encourage a holistic approach inclusive of healthy eating by planting gardens for nutritious food.
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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.