Arizona’s Children Association was founded in 1912, as Arizona Children's Home, by a group of community leaders in Tucson, Prescott, Bisbee, Globe/Miami, and Yuma, as an orphanage to care for the state’s children looking for permanent homes.

To meet the changing needs of the children, Arizona Children‘s Home developed services that extended beyond the residential program in Tucson, and well beyond Tucson itself.

To reflect this change, Arizona Children’s Home changed its name to Arizona's Children Association in 1997.

Today, Arizona’s Children Association is the state’s largest and oldest non-profit, full-service child welfare and behavioral health agency.

More than 600 professionally trained, caring and dedicated individuals – consisting of counselors, therapists, social workers, psychologists and professional and administrative staff, in addition to 550 partner foster families, work every day to break the cycle of abuse and neglect, and begin the process of healing.

Offering more than 40 individual programs, Arizona’s Children Association positively affects the lives of some 45,000 Arizonans each year.