Empower Pack Program – AZ Dept. of Health Services Director's Blog

Empowering Habits, Empowering Lives: Superheroes Empowering Arizona!

By Cory Nelson|2017-02-10T09:49:14-07:00May 5th, 2015|General|

This past weekend, we held the fourth annual “Empowering Habits and Empowering Lives” Empower Conference. More than 250 Early Care and Education professionals from all over Arizona participated in the all-day meeting. Conference participants explored the Empower Program's 10 Standards to Empower Children to Live Healthy Lives and learned how to be more effective through developing cultural [...]

Childcare Facilities Efficiency Report

By azdhs-admin|2017-02-10T09:51:57-07:00February 10th, 2011|Licensing|

Those of you that were working here in 2009 (or even if you weren’t) probably remember all of the angst and unrest that occurred when we increased our licensing fees for child care facilities (for the first time in over 20 years). The goal was to have licensing fee revenues cover the actual costs incurred [...]