The Mission of Northland Family Help Center is to reduce the incidence of all forms of family and relationship violence and to promote the development of healthy families and individual in northern Arizona. We are committed to providing safe shelter, counseling, advocacy, community education and referral for individuals and families affected by violence and abuse.

Northland Family Help Center is an amalgamation of three organizations that began operating in Northern Arizona in 1978:
The Northland Crisis Nursery provided shelter and assistance to children in crisis.
The Flagstaff Women's Shelter provided shelter and assistance to women and children escaping domestic violence.
The Center Against Domestic Violence provided education and counseling for the victims of family violence.

By the early 1990's these three organizations had joined to become the Northland Family Help Center. This amalgamated organization now serves an area of Northern Arizona that stretches from Kingman to Holbrook, and Page to Cottonwood.

The quality of the operations of Northland Family Help Center is recognized by experts around the state. NFHC is the recipient of the Office of the Attorney General's Distinguished Service Award for "Distinguished Service to the People of Arizona," as well as the "Organization of the Year,'"award by the Arizona Daily Sun. In March 2000, auditors from the Governor's Office on Domestic violence found that NFHC had "model practices" in all 19 areas evaluated, and asked if they could use NFHC programs as examples for other domestic violence agencies. NFHC has worked hard to earn this sterling reputation for innovative, effective programming and financial probity.

Over the years, NFHC has come to recognize the need not only to treat the symptoms of the family violence problem by providing safe shelter and counseling for victims, but to also the need to break the cycle of violence in the community. If we are to reduce the incidence of family violence in our communities we must intervene to prevent violence from occurring in the first place. So, in addition to providing shelter services for the victims of family violence, we have also developed a prevention program. The objective of the Prevention Program is to reduce the incidence of family violence in the communities of Northern Arizona through education, counseling, and outreach efforts.

NFHC programs are making a difference in the communities of Northern Arizona. However, these programs cost money to run. While NFHC does receive money from government agencies, that funding only covers 70% of NFHC's operating expenses. Thirty percent of NFHC's operating expenses come from community donations, and as government funding shrinks, that percentage will have to increase.

If you want to help, you can make a tax deductible donation to:

Northland Family Help Center
2532 N. 4th Street #506
Flagstaff, AZ 86004