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Child & Family Resources is a private, nonprofit, community-based organization that offers a range of child care services. Established in 1970, the organization provides programs, such as child care, resource and referral, child and adult care food and provider education. It governs a center for adolescent parents that offers teen mothers a high school diploma and on-site child care programs. The organization is headquartered in Tucson, Ariz., and provides services in Pima, Cochise, Santa Cruz, Graham, Maricopa and Yuma counties in Arizona. Child & Family Resources employs more than 200 people. Its early intervention program offers services to children with developmental disabilities.

Established in 1996, Southern Arizona Children's Advocacy Center is a child abuse treatment center. Based in Tucson, Ariz., it investigates matters of child physical abuse, sexual assault and neglect reports. Offering medical attention and support to the child, more than 1000 children come to the center each year from southern Arizona. The clinical services include forensic interviews, medical evaluation and advocacy support to the families. Southern Arizona Children's Advocacy Center offers outreach educational service programs, such as Prevention Program for Children and Training on Mandated Reporting of Child Abuse. Its programs are designed for children in schools, church settings, daycare centers and youth seminars.

You see them practically every day. Standing on street corners, huddling in groups, walking down the street with backpacks, plastic bags near bursting, worn duffel bags, or shopping carts overflowing with stuff. Meager possessions, remnants of all that's left in their lives.What do you fe...