Join us in supporting our ministry partner, Christian Family Care and learn more about what they are doing to help protect vulnerable children.

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Please meet at the Christian Family Care (CFC) office 2346 N Central Avenue at 9am, where we will get a bit of info, and then travel to the Welcome Center for the Department of Child Safety (DCS) tour at 10am.

What’s in the Welcome Center?

In 2003, the Arizona Department of Child Safety (DCS) opened a 50,000-square-foot trauma-informed Welcome Center which will be many children’s first stop when entering the foster system.

The campus provides youths with age-appropriate play and sleeping areas, a cafeteria, three outdoor playgrounds, a sensory room and a crisis response room.

How does the facility help children?

Children entering the Welcome Center can be assessed both physically and mentally by providers until a caregiver is located. The new center can sleep up to 48 kids a night, more than double the capacity of the previous facility.

• 4,000 kids enter foster care in Arizona yearly.
• Twenty-seven percent of all children entering foster care, more than 200 per month, will start at the Welcome Center.
• On average, a child will stay at the DCS Welcome Center for about two days.