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Marc brings more than 25 years of experience with education institutions, art organizations and human service agencies to Arizona's Children. He contributed to their advancement in the role of Chief Development Officer. Additionally, he has shared his expertise as a board member for several Phoenix organizations. Marc has been recognized for his work to improve the community with the Arizona Human Rights Fund Individual Award Honor and the Malta Center Humanitarian of the Year Award. As Senior Vice President and Chief Development Officer, Marc oversees the Development Office, Marketing and Communications, the Volunteer Program and the fundraising efforts of Arizona's Children Association.
--- Photo Coming Soon --- Christina Kupferschmidt , CPA After serving as controller for Arizona's Children Association for the last two years, Christina has recently been named the new Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Arizona’s Children Association in 2006, she was business manager for a Tucson area general contractor. Christina earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration – Accounting at the University of Wyoming. She is a Certified Public Accountant in the state of Arizona. Her professional memberships and community activities include the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants; Arizona Society of Certified Public Accountants; former member of the Diocese of Tucson Finance Council and past president, former treasurer for the Board of Directors of Arizona’s Children Association.
Rebecca brings to Arizona’s Children over 20 years experience in all aspects of human resource management. With extensive experience in private, public, and non-profit settings, Ms. Hill has responsibility for all employment-related activities, benefits administration, employee-management relations, licensure and accreditation compliance, records management, and legal compliance issues. Rebecca is an active member and leader in the Society for Human Resource Management and the American Society for Training and Development. She has been awarded numerous citations for her outstanding leadership skills, volunteer services, and commitment to diversity and equality. Rebecca has been involved in a number of community organizations and governmental boards, commissions and councils, including a stint on the Pima County Merit System Commission as a hearing officer for employee disciplinary actions and terminations.
--Photo Coming Soon-- Virginia Yrun JD, LLM Director of Organizational Leadership Virginia is a visionary community leader with more than twenty years leadership experience. She served as CEO of Planned Parenthood of Southern Arizona for twelve years, as a member of the Arizona State Senate, 45th Legislature and as founding director of the Arizona Health Policy and Law Institute, a statewide, collaborative health policy and law institute that identifies pressing health policy issues and convenes multidisciplinary teams to address them. She received her JD from the University of Arizona J.D., University of Arizona College of Law, and her B.A. in Education from the University of Arizona.
Regional Directors
Janet Fuhriman, MS,
CPC
Bonnie Slater, MC,
LPC Bonnie has been involved in child welfare work for more than 15 years. In her role as Regional Director for the mid-central region, she oversees programs and staff in Pinal and Gila counties. She brings extensive experience in family preservation and permanency for children, including treatment based foster care and regular foster care and adoption. While at Child Protective Services, she served in several capacities including the development and supervision of family preservation units. Bonnie also brings experience as a consultant for home based counseling services for children, families and adults. Most recently she has been a rogram Director for Arizona's Children Association in Maricopa County where she was responsible for development and monitoring of programs directed at permanency and intervention.
Virginia has been with Arizona's Children Association for 6 years and has 15 years of experience as a child and family therapist in community mental health and private practice settings, as well as in adoption and foster care services. At Arizona's Children Association, she has provided clinical supervision and program oversight for foster care, adoption and outpatient services. In addition, she has specialized training and experience in expressive arts therapies and wilderness-based therapeutic programs. She believes in focusing on the unique strengths that every family has and the natural resiliency of children. As associate regional director for Arizona's Children's Northern region, Virginia has primary responsibility for programs in Yavapai County. She has a strong commitment to improving the quality of life for children and families and is dedicated to supporting the innovative work of AzCA programs in northern Arizona's diverse communities.
Denise Ensdorff, LCSW Denise Ensdorff oversees the Center for Family Based Practice, Foster Care/Adoption program, Therapeutic Foster Care, Family Builders and Nuestra Familia. Denise brings more than 16 years of administrative and clinical experience to this position. She has been with AzCA for two years and was most recently the Clinical Supervisor for the Phoenix and Buckeye sites. Prior to AzCA Denise worked for an agency in Colorado that provided residential, day treatment and therapeutic foster care programs for severely emotionally disturbed children and their families. She held both clinical and administrative positions during her 13 years with this agency. She is an experienced therapist having provided individual, family and group therapy in a residential treatment setting as well as for an Employee Assistance Program. She obtained her LCSW licensure in 1990 in Colorado and in 2008 in Arizona.
Candy Espino Candy Espino oversees the foster care, adoption, and therapeutic foster care programs in Yuma, LaPaz and Mohave counties. Candy joined the staff of AzCA in 2005 as a behavior management specialist. She was later promoted to team lead for clinical liaisons and program supervisor for foster care in Yuma, La Paz and Mohave Counties. Candy brings significant expertise in the area of early childhood education. She was the owner/director of a pre-school for ten years.
Sheryl Derby, MSW, LCSW Associate Regional Director, Western Region Sheryl has been working in the area of family preservation with Arizona’s Children Association since 2001 and has 15 years of experience providing services to children and families in in-patient, out-patient and school settings as well as clinical research. She possesses a Master of Social Work with a Child Welfare Specialization and is licensed by the Arizona Board of Behavioral Health as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. As a social worker in direct practice, her therapeutic foundation consists of family systems, strengths-based perspective, structural/strategic family therapy, ecological systems model and solution-focused brief therapy. She is a foster parent for the Arizona Basset Hound Rescue and has been a member of the Yuma Community Critical Incident Stress Management Team for several years. Her role as an Associate Regional Director for the Western Region includes oversight of the clinical programs in Yuma, La Paz and Mohave counties.
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