Projects - GAP Ministries

Sponsor a Building Project

Partner with GAP to bring Hope to Children & Families

Show local children and families you care by sponsoring the building project of one of 4 program areas on the Campus of Hope. Your name will be on the recognition wall because you are a vital part of Building Hope for so many in our community. The administration building is now completed and we are moving on to finish the four buildings that will house all GAP’s programs. Next up is the Family Center.

GAP Family Center

Community Warehouse

GAP Kitchen & Job Training

GAP Family Center

The heart of GAP is to preserve the dignity of every child and family we serve, providing them with love, stability and every opportunity to succeed. We believe generational cycles of poverty, addiction and a growing foster care system can be healed One Life at a time. Breaking these cycles leads to a healthier family and and creates transformed communities.

2021 Foster & Family Statistics

Supervised Visits between Children & Parents

Children adopted by GAP Foster Families

Parenting Skills Classes & Visits

The New GAP family center on the Campus of Hope will house all our programs for foster children and their families including:

Training Facility

Training facility to license foster parents to provide a safe home environment for children removed from their families due to abuse or neglect

Private Visitation

Five welcoming private rooms where court-ordered supervised visits will take place between foster children and their families

Family Resource Center

Parenting resources and skills training to help mothers and fathers learn healthy ways of interacting with their children so they can successfully reunite as a family

Dining Room

Dining area where families can spend quality time eating and playing games together to build relationships.

Playground

Playground and Sports Court outside for fun play time as a family without distractions.

Secure Facilities

Security fencing and a private entrance so that children and their families feel safe as they work to break generational cycles of poverty and abuse.

This new property will allow GAP Ministries to increase the number of children and families whose lives will be healed. Will you be part of this exciting new season by helping sponsor the GAP Family center?

Ready to Bring Hope to our Community?

Sponsor the Family Center project by clicking the Donate button and choosing the amount that works for you. As a sponsor of the Family Center, you will receive the benefits indicated on the chart for each level of sponsorship. If you have questions or would like to visit with a member of our executive team, click on Connect and we will reach out to you.

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GAP Community Warehouse

GAP has cared for thousands of foster children over the past 20 years. But our true desire is to stop cycles of poverty and abuse before the children ever enter the system. Poverty is the #1 indicator of abuse, neglect, and children entering the foster system. This doesn’t just impact a select few. It affects everyone. When a family has broken apart, it has a ripple effect out into the community that is both painful and expensive. GAP wants to be so much more than a band aid approach to the problems in our community. The Community Warehouse provides food and needed products to families already on the edge to help prevent them from reaching a crisis that causes their children to be removed and their family to break apart.

2021 Community Warehouse Statistics

Shoppers

Monthly Non-Profit Partners

Million Food & Product Distributed

Hours of Volunteer Service

The New, Larger Community Warehouse on the Campus of Hope will be a bright light to the 85705 zip code to those seeking help in trying times. Will you be a part of building HOPE by becoming a warehouse project sponsor?

More Resources

Families in our community are struggling, so we are expanding the resources we are able to share with those in need.

Those who receive help.

Foster, adoptive & kinship families; veterans, seniors, refugees, tribal members, and individuals whose income qualifies them for AHCCCS.

Food & Product to those in need.

In 2021 GAP distributed $2.5 million worth of food, hygiene items, cleaning supplies, household appliances, clothing, shoes, and more.

Partnering with the community.

GAP receives donated products from large retailers and grocery stores. Partnering with local nonprofits, corporate sponsors, and hundreds of volunteers, we are able to distribute these items into the community to children, women and men needing help.

Ready to Bring Hope to our Community?

Sponsor the Community Warehouse project by clicking the Donate button and choosing the amount that works for you. As a sponsor of GAP’s Community Warehouse, you will receive the benefits indicated on the chart for each level of sponsorship. If you have questions or would like to visit with a member of our executive team, click on Connect and we will reach out to you.

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GAP Kitchen & Job Training

GAP’s new Campus of Hope is situated in the 85705 zip code because it is in the top ten poorest areas for all of Arizona. Many families in this area struggle with poverty, food insecurity, and a lack of resources. GAP receives weekly food donations from grocery stores. The GAP Kitchen was created as a solution to food waste, to extend the life of perishable donations that would otherwise be thrown away. Over 1000 meals weekly are provided for low income schools, shelters, and elderly shut-ins. The new kitchen on the Campus of Hope is being designed with the capacity to meet the needs of hundreds more children and struggling individuals, providing them with what could be the only warm, nutritious meal they will have that day.

2021 GAP Kitchen Statistics

Nutritious Meals

Culinary & Auto Tech Graduates

The GAP Kitchen and Job Training Center on the Campus of Hope are being custom-designed with the capacity to serve many more nutritious meals and launch the careers of more struggling men and women. Will you be a part of building HOPE by becoming a Kitchen & Job Training project sponsor?

Second Chance Job Training on the Campus of Hope

These job training programs exist to provide free quality education to under-employed, unemployed, and in-need individuals 18 and older. Graduates are mostly older adults, even into their 60’s, looking for a new beginning. Most of our students come from dysfunctional homes including the foster system, nearly all have a history of substance abuse or incarceration. For each of them, this truly marks a second chance for them to restore their lives.

Customized Training Room

The new larger training room will be used by culinary, auto tech, warehouse, and any other second chance students. GAP’s holistic approach includes weekly life skills and financial skills classes to ensure long-term stability and success.

Culinary Expansion

The new kitchen will include individualized workstations for students. Plans for expansion of the Culinary program include 2 tracks for basic skills and more advanced management skills, bakery chef, and retail experience with a Grab & Go restaurant.

Other Workforce Opportunities

Auto Tech job training will continue in partnership with MPG Automotive, and plans are being made for an Auto Body track with the building currently on campus that will allow for this opportunity. Warehouse job training will include practical warehouse training, box truck and pallet jack certification, and a future opportunity for CDL license.

Program Demographics

Total graduates YTD – 206
Caucasian 36%
Black 0.1%
Hispanic 41%
Native American 17%\
Other .01
Male 55%
Female 45%

Ready to Bring Hope to our Community?

Sponsor the GAP Kitchen & Job Training project by clicking the Donate button and choosing the amount that works for you. As a sponsor of the Kitchen & Second Chance Job Training, you will receive the benefits indicated on the chart for each level of sponsorship. If you have questions or would like to visit with a member of our executive team, click on Connect and we will reach out to you.

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Thank you for your interest in the Campus of Hope. We know the decision to invest in this is one you don’t take lightly, and we would like to share more with you in person. We are also happy to email you more information or give you a personal call.

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