AZ Community Action Teams

OUR MISSION

To substantially improve the quality of life, resources and opportunities for people with special health care needs.
 

• Flagstaff Community Partnership (FCP) is a parent-led community action team, composed of families, professionals, service providers and Flagstaff community members.

• FCP is a unique, coordinated and diverse cross-section of families and professionals who are committed to creating and supporting positive change in our community.

• FCP began as the Community Action Council (CAC) with parent leaders in 1999. The CAC had been around since the 1980s but was not parent led. FCP’s mission is to substantially improve the quality of life, resources and opportunities for people with special health care needs.

WHAT WE DO:

• We come together on a monthly basis to share information and new resources in our community to connect families with professionals, and professionals with professionals.
• We provide trainings and workshops to better equip families and professionals with up to date information to strengthen families and enhance our community.
• FCP is a community venue for linking diverse agencies, organizations and families to work together to help build a cohesive, supportive partnership in our community.

President's Message

“As President of the FCP Board of Directors, I am honored to have such an important role in helping the community of Flagstaff be a better place for people with disabilities and their families.  I am a lifelong resident of Flagstaff and have devoted my life to being a well informed, well spoken advocate for people with disabilities and their families.  FCP has provided me with the opportunity to network with community and statewide agencies to provide various resources to people with disabilities and their families so that they may have their voices heard therefore gaining greater independence and self sufficiency.  I not only work for a living to improve the lives of people with disabilities and their families, but, I am a young man with disabilities myself who believes in increasing knowledge of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the valuable resources that are available to all of us throughout our community, state and nation.  My work is literally my life because I live with disabilities 24 hours a day 7 days a week. FCP will enrich my life for years to come.”

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Signs of Our Impact

• Approached by Grand Canyon Youth to help put together a river trip in the summer of 2007 for individuals with special needs

• Parent leaders asked to sit on hiring panels and program review committees

• Parent Leaders asked to present FCP Leadership and Community Development to various agencies/organizations, directors

• Flagstaff area First Responders are committed and invested in bringing this program to our area

• Northern Arizona Chapter of the Autism Society of America came to FCP asking us to partner with them for the May 2007 Autism Conference

Visit our photo gallery to see photos of some youth teaching nursing students at NAU on how to interact with people with special needs.  What a great experience for the youth to become 'teachers' and the opportunity to increase the education of nursing students!

FCP Team Projects

These are collaborations, workshops, public events and trainings that FCP has sponsored, participated and received support from the community.

• November 2005- sponsored Arizona Governor’s Council on DD Public forums
• February 2006- Legislative training with Representatives Tom O’Halleran and Ann Kirkpatrick
• March 2006- Partnered with NAMI and The Guidance Center for NAMI Walks 2006. We did raffles, fund raising and public awareness
• March 2006- Posters for People with Mental Illness Enrich Our Lives were printed and distributed
• April 2006- First Responders Smart Card Program was presented and is in the process of being introduced into the Flagstaff community
• April 2006- Children’s Rehabilitative Services (CRS) Fun Day
• April 2006- Transition Fair
• May 2006- Co-sponsored a special education mini-conference with Children’s Health Center, CRS, NAU and IHD (presented from Arizona Center for Disability Law)
• May 2006- Valuing Children’s and Teens Abilities: Using 40 Assets to see Beyond Disabilities
• June 2006- Peaks Weightlifting Club Open House
• July 2006- Helped to send a Flagstaff family to the 11th Annual Conference for the National Organization for Albinism and Hypopigmentation (NOAH). They will present the information they received to the team in October 2006
• August 2006- Successfully received DHS/OCSHCN support contract
• September 2006- FCP and CRS collaborated to bring a region-wide information distribution site to CRS. This site will serve as a centralized resource for families and professionals in Northern Arizona and is to be maintained by the parent leaders
• October 2006- On the County Board of Supervisors agenda