WYGC Foundation

Donations to the WYGC Foundation are tax-deductible. Donors may specify a particular program or area of interest for their donations, including the option of an Endowment Fund. The WYGC Endowment Fund is managed and held by the Arizona Community Foundation. For Online Giving information, click here.
 
The WYGC Foundation theme is "Shaping Lives Today, and Dreams Tomorrow." Local donations have real and lasting impact, because they support local programs helping real people. Here are just three examples of how lives have been touched through WYGC's programs:

We help faces of all ages...

• A six-year-old foster child had endured extensive trauma in her short life. Because of that, she started suffering from reactive attachment disorder ö abusing animals, abusing peers and acting up in school. So what happened to that six-year-old girl? Well, she came to the West Yavapai Guidance Clinic for services. We put her in a program that included consistent therapy, role-modeling behavior therapy, family therapy and psychiatric support. Now she is a healthy eight-year-old child who can function in school, make friends and enjoy life. Best yet, she no longer needs out services.
   
• After 45 years of marriage, a 74-year-old woman suddenly finds herself alone. Her husband has died and her adult children are living out of state. She starts sleeping less, crying more and begins to talk about how life now has little meaning. So what happened to that 74-year-old woman? Well, she came to the Senior Peer Program at the West Yavapai Guidance Clinic. Staff members provided her with an in-home assessment and connected her to community resources. They also assigned her to a senior peer counselor who helped her understand the grief process. Now she is sleeping better, eating well and is adjusting to living alone. Best yet, she has made new friends and is pursuing a long-forgotten interest in painting.
  

• A dejected 34-year-old mother, estranged from her family after years of addiction, is arrested because of drugs. She cries, wondering why, after so many sincere efforts to stop, she has lost everything she cares about to drugs. So what happened to that 34-year-old mother? Well, she came to the Hillside Recovery Program at West Yavapai Guidance Clinic. There, staff members gave her safe residence from influences that had fed her disease of addiction. They educated, guided and supported her until she could begin to care for and believe in herself. Now she is filled with hope, confidence and plans for her future. She has her loving family back and is going to college. Her goal is to become a counselor in order to help others battling addictions find their way home.
  

The West Yavapai Guidance Clinic (WYGC) Foundation is a related but separate 501(c)3 organization founded in 1986. The WYGC Foundation was formed to:

Acquire assets and resources which promote the creation, development and improvement of mental health services and programs extended or provided by the West Yavapai Guidance Clinic.

Donations to the WYGC Foundation Endowment Fund are tax-deductible. Donors may specify a particular program or area of interest for their donations, including the option of an Endowment Fund. The WYGC Foundation Endowment Fund is managed and held by the Arizona Community Foundation.

For on-line giving information, click here.