Imagine a young girl in Phoenix packing her favorite stuffed animal into a backpack for the third time this year. She’s not going on vacation; her family is moving again. The uncertainty of where she’ll sleep next week, the ache of leaving another school and set of...
A seven-year-old girl sits in the back of her family’s car in a Phoenix parking lot. While other kids her age are dreaming, she’s awake, listening to the sounds of the street, her small body tense with a quiet, constant hum of anxiety. She isn’t just tired or sad; her...
It’s a story we see play out far too often in Phoenix. A family is doing everything right—working hard, paying bills, raising their kids. Life is manageable. Then, out of nowhere, a crisis hits. It could be a sudden medical bill, a major car repair that can’t wait, or...
