Con los cambios importantes en las leyes federales y estatales, los avances en medicina y el paso del tiempo, el trabajo de UCP de Arizona Central ganó reconocimiento. A medida que más y más familias se convirtieron en clientes, el amor y la atención ofrecidos a sus seres queridos hicieron realidad para estas familias lo que los fundadores de UCP sabían cuando fundaron la organización. Estas nuevas familias pueden haber estado separadas por años en el tiempo de las que comenzaron UCP, pero estaban unidas en el entendimiento de que cada vida merece ser vivida al máximo.

Time sauntered on, and UCP of Central Arizona continued to expand while staying focused on providing the highest-quality care. As the organization grew older, so too did the early members of UCP – the staff loathed the idea of turning away the members they had watched grow up, simply because they were no longer children. They expanded services to treat adults as well as children, and to this day will help anyone at any stage of their life.

UCP of Central Arizona’s next monumental milestone came in 2003 with the support of Rich and Karie Dozer. Like the Hausman’s and Goldensachs of New York, the Dozer’s were not only committed to the disability community, but were intimately connected to it through their daughter, Laura, who had been born prematurely with cerebral palsy. Thanks to their leadership, assisted by Joan and Jerry Colangelo as co-chairs, a successful capital campaign provided the funding for UCP of Central Arizona to open the 50,000 square foot Laura Dozer Center in 2003. Now families around Phoenix would have a designated facility where their loved ones could come to receive the best possible care.

El edificio cambió, pero la pasión del personal, cuando se mudaron de Hatcher Rd. clínica al Centro Laura Dozer, solo se intensificó. Los avances en el tratamiento que fueron posibles, la expansión de los servicios que enriquecerían la vida de tantos, fue como un sueño hecho realidad para los terapeutas y médicos que vieron la oportunidad que brindaba esta nueva instalación y no podían esperar para ponerla en práctica. buen uso.

UCP of Central Arizona never let up on their mission, and with more adult members than ever, the Laura Dozer Center expanded its facilities in 2007 with a 6,000 square foot addition. We continued to grow over the years, and in 2016 UCP’s Downtown campus opened, providing the same high-quality services at a convenient location in the heart of Phoenix. The amount of lives these facilities allow us to impact is staggering – in 1952, UCP of Central Arizona served only a handful of individuals. Today that number is almost 3,000.

This scale wouldn’t be possible without the community’s support. Circle K has been our loyal and steadfast sponsor for more than 35 years, providing over $3.5 million annually to subsidize costs, programs, and services at UCP, taking the financial burden off of families. Much of that comes directly from the community, through the spare-change canisters you’ll find beside every Circle K register; those small donations add up to an enormous impact. Circle K even went so far as to provide the location and first-year of lease payments for the Downtown campus. And with support from all of our amazing corporate and individual donors, we will continue the mission set forth by those parents over 65 years ago, growing, strengthening, and prospering alongside our members.

The motto of UCP is “Life without Limits” and while we recognize that no one is actually without limits – they should only be those that cannot be removed and never placed by artificial means that are barriers to individual success. Every life is precious, every life has value and at UCP of Central Arizona, we will continue to remove obstacles and offer a Life Without Limits to all who pass through our doors.