PHOENIX — An Arizona organization helping thousands of children with behavioral needs is just days away from its biggest fundraiser of the year. The work the M.I.K.I.D. team is doing is important as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, reported 20 percent of youth ages 12 to 17 have unmet mental health care needs.
In Arizona, M.I.K.I.D. steps in when families need help navigating their children’s new diagnosis with things like depression, anxiety, ADHD, autism and more.
Cathy Hunton loves her granddaughter, Mackenzie. They’re a pair, M.I.K.I.D. serves. Mackenzie and Cathy have been an inseparable pair for the last eight years…