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Nonprofit leaders tell Avondale council childcare access, housing stability and peer support are urgent priorities
Summary
A New Leaf, United Way and First Things First told Avondale leaders that childcare affordability, support services for people exiting homelessness and peer supports for behavioral health are top community needs.
Representatives of A New Leaf, United Way and First Things First told Avondale city leaders on March 4 that childcare affordability, housing stability and coordinated community supports are among the most urgent human‑services needs in the region.
Kathy DeNolfi, chief program officer at A New Leaf, described an expanded range of services that organization provides and warned that most of the nonprofit’s funding (about 85%) is government‑sourced and therefore subject to shifts. “It’s a daily challenge in finding the resources to do so,” DeNolfi said of services spanning housing, domestic violence…
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