Keeping Culture Connected
Three Precious Miracles is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded to support Native American children. We provide basic resources, streamline systems, create cultural and natural linkages to licensing agencies, and support foster and kinship families through systems navigation and involvement.
Our mission is to support Native youth that are undergoing past and current trauma while aiding their caregivers, whether they are biological or state appointed guardians. This introduces an opportunity for youth in care to embrace their cultural identity while healing past and current trauma, and to provide safe and healthy homes where children and youth can thrive through healthy relationships and mutual respect.
Our Programming
We provide year-round programming to support Native youth and their families, focused on promoting and honoring cultural heritage.
Programs
Back to School
Help Native youth in school by giving them the tools they need to succeed and get ready for the upcoming year. With the generosity of donors and volunteers from across The Valley, we select one Native community to bless 400-500 children each year to have a successful upcoming school year by providing needed items: backpacks with school supplies, shoes, socks, underwear, and a toy. With your help, have provided resources for the Gila River Indian Community, Tohono O’odham Nation, White Mountain Apache, San Carlos, and Hopi Tribes.
Donate school supplies or, even better, organize your own supply drive in your area by completing our Volunteer Form. There are many great reasons why this program is amazing:
- Feel great about ensuring that children start the school year with the tools they need to be successful
- Help teachers by providing proper tools for their classrooms so they don’t have to spend money from their own pockets
- By providing school supplies, you are supporting your local Native students, teachers, and communities
Royalty with Miracles
This is a one of a kind event for Native foster children to embrace Native beauty and spend time around Native Royalty while having fun. All children love princesses and princes and kings and queens, and they will love our Native Royalty. It’s our goal to bridge the gap of Native children losing their culture because they have been placed off-reservation.
With the generosity of donors, sponsorships, and volunteers from across The Valley we are able to serve 100-150 children and families. This event brings Native Royalty from around the state to embrace our children living in foster care, group homes, or being raised by grandparents. We provide pizza and drinks and bowling, and the children receive a sash, welcome bag, and have lots of fun spending time with Native Royalty.
Basic Essential Needs
We provide Native foster children and grandparents raising grandchildren with clothing, shoes, hygiene items, toys, books, baby equipment, strollers, and more to make the transition easier.
You can help children in school by cleaning out your closet. Even though you don’t want your old clothes anymore, it’s almost guaranteed that someone else will and truly need what you don’t want. There are many children that get placed into foster care with only the items they are wearing. Without your donations, we have no chance of reaching kids that need them the most.
Another great way you can help children is donating new or gently used of the following items or even hosting collection drives in your community:
- Socks and underwear (new)
- Shoes
- Jackes
- Hygiene items, including diapers and wipes (new)
- Toys and bikes
- Baby equipment
Keep Culture Connected: Quilted Blanket & Beaded Pins
We make quilted custom blankets for Native foster or adopted children so they can identify with their culture spiritually, mentally, and physically by having something that is personalized for them during their hardest times.
These quilted custom blankets have blessed Native foster or adopted children in Arizona, Washington, California, and Oklahoma. You can help this project by donating quilted blankets or sponsoring the $20 shipping charge.
Cultural Care Packages
Cultural care packages provided to Native youth newly placed in the foster system. Items provided come from Indigenous artists to help foster a sense of belonging, understanding, and support within communities.
Christmas with Three Precious Miracles
It’s not unknown that families struggle just to put food on the table. Since 2016, Three Precious Miracles has made Christmas a little easier for families and grandparents raising grandchildren of Native youth. Each year we serve 300+ children who take pictures with Santa, receive Christmas gifts from generous donations of toys and bikes, and make fun holiday crafts.
3D Native Models
In collaboration with our fellow Leonard Bruce, Three Precious Miracles has created 3D models inspired by the tribes of Arizona. Included with the models is an information booklet for caretakers to read and discover more about the different aspects of Indigenous life and cultures of their Native children. We are also developing children’s books based on the models with pictures and stories to help bring history to life.
Enrichment
Window Tinting Detailing Course
To support Native youth and those aging-out of the foster system and create a path forward, Three Precious Miracles has partnered with Pure Luxury Tint & Detailing Training Studio to provide a week-long training course. Students will learn window tinting, business skills, and receive a certificate of completion.
This enrichment opportunity is made possible by our partner Molina Healthcare of Arizona. To support programming for Native Youth, please consider becoming a partner. Get started by emailing contracts@threepreciousmiracles.org.
Resources
Together, We Make a Difference
Three Precious Miracles acts as a link between licensing agencies and families of Native youth who have been displaced. We take part in the Child Abuse Prevention Council, provide cultural trainings, conduct community outreach, and promote protective factors to prevent child abuse and neglect.