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2013 ADHS Water Drive

By |2017-02-10T09:50:25-07:00May 16th, 2013|General|

We already broke the 100 degree mark in the Valley this week.  It won’t be long before the heat’s here to stay.  Heat is one of the most dangerous weather situations in public health – actually it’s the #1 weather-related killer.  Last year 152 Arizonans died from heat exposure....  with 80% happening in June, July and August.  The largest [...]

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This Year’s Clothing Drive is Here

By |2017-02-10T09:50:38-07:00March 7th, 2013|General|

Spring is a good time to toss out stuff we don’t use anymore and do a little cleaning around the house.  If that’s the case for you, we’re going to make it easy to get rid of the clothes and household goods you don’t need or want.  A couple of years ago, we had people [...]

Blessing Bag Update

By |2017-02-10T09:50:42-07:00February 15th, 2013|General|

I wanted to update on one of my December blog posts.  Around the holidays, patients at the Arizona State Hospital decided to take on a project – to help the homeless.   Patients wanted an opportunity to give back to the community in a way that would help those in need.  They chose a project working [...]

Patient-driven Solution Needs Your Help

By |2017-02-10T09:50:48-07:00December 13th, 2012|General|

The Patients and Hospital Rehab Departments at the Hospital are working together with the Phoenix Rescue Mission (homeless shelter) to create Blessing Bags. Blessing Bags are large gallon sized Ziploc bags filled with basic necessities which will be handed out by the Phoenix Rescue Mission to the homeless.  But they need some donations to get [...]

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2012 Water Drive Success

By |2017-02-10T09:51:07-07:00June 29th, 2012|General|

Quite a show of teamwork from all our staff today as they moved more than 60 thousand bottles of water out of storage into a huge pile in the parking lot of 1740.  But the work wasn't done – they loaded all that water into trucks, trailers and vans to be distributed throughout Maricopa County [...]

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Water Drive II

By |2017-02-10T09:51:09-07:00June 7th, 2012|Behavioral Health, General|

Last year our Agency pulled through big-time during our bottled water drive- collecting and donating 68,000 bottles of water for thirsty homeless folks. This month we’re having our 2nd annual Water Challenge with a goal of 75,000 bottles by the end of June. If we meet the goal of 75,000 bottles collected in June, we’ll all get [...]

2011 Homeless Street Count

By |2011-01-30T07:22:20-07:00January 30th, 2011|Behavioral Health, General|

Twenty-two employees from ADHS and members of their families teamed up last week and joined the national effort to rid the nation and our state of homelessness.  The beginning step is to produce clear evidence of the need by providing the government of (as closely as we can) the actual number of people who are [...]

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