Yavapai Big Brothers Big Sisters Will Now Aim to Serve Young People Graduating from High School and Exploring Career Opportunities Yavapai Big Brothers Big Sisters (YBBBS) creates and professionally supports one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the promise...
Positive Childhood Experiences: How We Can Promote Resilience, as a Community Positive Child Experiences, also known as PCEs, are advantageous or benevolent childhood experiences that promote positive development and resilience among youth. Researchers have...
Through Their Yavapai Big Brothers Big Sisters Match, This Pair Explores New Things, Together On a recent beautiful summer’s day, Big Sister Rebecca Finken took her Little Sister Abigail on a paddleboard adventure on Prescott’s Watson Lake. This match made by Yavapai...
All parents and caregivers will need help at some point. Normalizing this is a huge step in supporting families in our community. While well-meaning people are quick to say, “Let me know if you need anything,” when we see a family going through a tough situation, it’s...
Prevent Child Abuse Arizona Executive Director Claire Louge recently posted on social media about the book, “Parent Nation.” In this issue’s column, we’re sharing that post. “I just finished ‘Parent Nation’ by Dr. Dana Suskind. Folks, this is it. It beautifully...
One local mother shares the story of her family’s journey through anorexia … and healing By Merissa Brinkerhoff I can’t stay silent. Eating disorders doubled during Covid. One in five diagnosed will die. Quarantine was going as well as could be expected for our family...
