Coalition for Compassion and Justice (CCJ)

10/18/2026

10/18/2026

🎉 CELEBRATE 25 YEARS OF CCJ! 🎉

Join us for the Coalition for Compassion & Justice (CCJ) Totally Rad 25th Birthday Block Party as we celebrate 25 years of making a difference in our community and raising funds for a great cause!



💦 SEE YOU TOMORROW, PRESCOTT! WHO WANTS TO DUNK ME?! 🎯

I’m jumping into the dunk tank around 1:00 PM tomorrow, and I’m challenging YOU to come take your best shot! 😂💦



📅 SAVE THE DATE!

Sunday, October 18
⏰ 12:30–4:30 PM
📍 Fairweather Social Club
224 N. Cortez Street, Prescott
🎟️ Admission: $5 | Kids under 5 FREE!



🎶 FAMILY-FRIENDLY FUN FOR EVERYONE! 🐾

Enjoy live music, food trucks, games, a co****le tournament, photo booth, dunk tank, and plenty of fun! Even your furry friends are welcome.

Come say hi, support CCJ, and see if you’ve got what it takes to send me splashing! 💦

10/16/2026

Before we party… Meet the people. Hear the story. 💛

Make it a CCJ weekend! Watch our 25th anniversary documentary together this Saturday. Then join us on Sunday for a totally rad afternoon of music, food trucks, and community celebration.

📺 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17 • 6 PM ARIZONA TIME
Join us on YouTube for the premiere of our six-minute documentary. Hear from past and present executive directors about CCJ’s journey and the difference stable housing makes in the lives of our neighbors.

🎉 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18 • 12:30–4:30 PM
Celebrate with us in-person at the Fairweather Social Club! Enjoy a DJ, a photo booth, a dunk tank, and co****le, with food trucks on site. Bring the family and your pets! Admission is just $5, payable at the door. Food and drinks may carry an additional cost.

Start the celebration with us Saturday at 6 PM! Set a reminder to join us on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/KmdPR4pVBIQ

10/14/2026

25 years. Countless reasons to give.

A place to call home can mean a safer night, greater stability in everyday life, and room to plan for the future.

As CCJ celebrates 25 years, we invite you to support the work that continues each day: helping our neighbors find and keep stable housing.

Give $2.50, $25, $250, or an amount that feels right for you! Your anniversary gift supports CCJ’s ongoing work here in Prescott.

Help us carry this work into the next chapter. 💛

Donate here: https://coalitionforcompassionandjustice.ddock.gives/

www.yavapaiccj.org

10/13/2026

25 Years of CCJ. 25% Off Your Finds.

We're celebrating 25 years of compassion, community, and second chances with a little something special at CCJ’s Second Glance Thrift Shoppe!

From October 13–16, enjoy 25% off all purchases as we kick off a week of anniversary celebrations leading up to CCJ's Totally Rad 25th Birthday Block Party on October 18. 🎉

Whether you're hunting for vintage treasures, refreshing your wardrobe, or discovering something you didn't know you needed, there's never been a better time to shop for a cause.

Each purchase supports CCJ's work to create housing stability and build a stronger Prescott.

Come for the finds. Stay for the impact. 💛

10/11/2026

We recently found out that yesterday was World Homeless Day.

While we appreciate the principle behind it, we decided not to post.

Here’s why.

We struggle with the idea of “celebrating” a day centered on homelessness when homelessness itself is not something to celebrate. Awareness has value, but we believe the conversation should move beyond recognizing homelessness and toward understanding what causes it, challenging the assumptions surrounding it, and focusing on what ends it.

“The homeless” is not a type of person.

People are human beings, not circumstances. Homelessness is something a person experiences. It is not who they are.

The language we use matters because it shapes the way we understand the problem. When we turn “homeless” into an identity, it becomes easier to attach stereotypes, assumptions, and even blame to the person experiencing it.

We would rather ask different questions.

What barriers are keeping this person from housing? What does our community need to prevent homelessness in the first place? Most importantly, what actually ends homelessness?

Housing.

Housing does more than give someone a place to sleep. It creates the stability that makes so much else possible: greater safety, better access to healthcare, more consistency in employment, stronger family stability, and the ability to focus on what comes next instead of just surviving the day.

We also know homelessness isn’t an inevitable condition communities merely have to accept. Around the world, communities that have made permanent, stable housing the starting point have demonstrated that homelessness can be dramatically reduced.

For 25 years, CCJ has worked alongside people experiencing homelessness here in our community. That wisdom has reinforced something fundamental:

Awareness matters. Dignity matters. Language matters.

But ultimately, housing changes lives.

Rather than limiting our response to observing World Homeless Day, we want to use the occasion to keep the conversation focused on what comes next.

On people. On dignity. On solutions. On housing.

10/02/2026

As CCJ celebrates 25 years of serving our community, we’re especially grateful for the partners who continue to stand alongside us. 💛

Thank you to the Arizona Community Foundation of Yavapai County for your ongoing partnership and continued support of CCJ’s mission.

For 25 years, community partners, supporters, staff, volunteers, and neighbors have helped CCJ create meaningful change in Prescott. Partnerships like those with ACF strengthen our ability to help people find stability, connection, and a path toward housing.

We’re grateful to continue this work together as CCJ looks forward to the years ahead.

10/02/2026

🏠 WELCOME HOME, MORGAN! 🏠

Today we get to celebrate our favorite thing at CCJ, welcoming home a new tenant!

Morgan first came to CCJ as a guest in our emergency shelter. But he didn’t stay still for long. He found a job, hit the ground running, and started putting in the work to build a better life for himself.

Today, we are incredibly excited to say that Morgan has officially moved into CCJ’s Men’s Lodge! 🎉🔑

Going from emergency shelter to having a place to call home doesn’t happen overnight. It takes determination, hard work, support, and someone willing to keep moving forward even when life hasn’t made it easy.

Morgan did exactly that.

Welcome home, Morgan. We’re so excited to see what comes next! ❤️

09/30/2026

Twenty-five years hold a treasure of stories.

Stories of people who showed up. Neighbors who cared. A community that kept choosing compassion.

As we count down to CCJ’s Totally Rad 25th Birthday Block Party, we’re looking back at where it all began and the people who helped shape what CCJ is today.

Here’s a small glimpse of that story.

And there’s much more to come. 💛

Join us on October 18 at Fairweather Social Club as we celebrate 25 years of CCJ and share the full story together.

Tickets are available here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ccjs-totally-rad-25th-birthday-block-party-tickets-1999544932720

We’re grateful to Dork Social Club for learning our history and generously creating the full film for us.

09/24/2026

Some of CCJ’s most important work occurs behind the scenes.

We’re grateful to Best Day Ever Foundation for its generous donation toward CCJ’s operations.

Operational funding gives us the flexibility to keep the day-to-day work moving, respond to immediate needs, and ensure our programs and services remain available to our neighbors across Prescott.

Thank you, Best Day Ever Foundation, for investing in the work that keeps compassion in action. 💛