Causes: Children & Youth, Children & Youth Services, Crime & Law, Sexual Abuse Prevention, Youth Development Programs

Mission: Casa's mission is to provide social and emotional learning programs and bullying prevention to children and adolescents to develop optimal relationship skills and to prevent abusive and violent relationships. Casa's prevention programs prevent children from becoming abused, from becoming abusive, bullying people, and from becoming involved in abusive relationships. In addition, Casa leads call to action movements to increase public awareness of verbal, and emotional, other abusive behaviors and to implement abuse prevention programs and social and emotional learning programs in schools, camps and after-school systems, as well as in businesses, houses of worship, health centers, and public entities.

Results: Casa has reached:1 million children in our sexual abuse prevention programs, Kids Talk, stopping sexual abuse for thousands of victims, resulting in arrests of numerous sex offenders. 80,000 teens with Casa healthy vs. unhealthy dating relationship program, POWER25,000 students, teachers and parents with Social and Emotional Intelligence Learning (SEL) and bullying prevention programs

Target demographics: children learn Social and Emotional skills and bully prevention techniques.

Direct beneficiaries per year: Provided SEL trainings in 9 AZ Schools reaching approximately 2,000 students, teachers, and parents

Geographic areas served: Phoenix, Arizona

Programs: Casa major program Prevention Education to teach positive social and emotional intelligence and relationship skills along with programs to prevent bullying, sexual abuse and teen dating violence. Since 1980, Casa Programs have reached over 900,000 children, teens and adults. Casa also leads the Arizona State membership alliance SEL 4 AZ of individuals and organizations who advocate throughout AZ to integrate Social and Emotional learning (SEL) in all AZ schools, families, businesses and communities.