<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29677172</id><updated>2009-02-21T07:18:56.122-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Special Friends Mentoring Program</title><subtitle type='html'>Parenting Arizona, a statewide non-profit organization, works to strengthen families and reduce violence toward children through parent education and support with the philosophy that healthy parenting is the cornerstone to a safe and fruitful childhood. 

For more than a decade, the Special Friends program has been dedicated to working exclusively with children living in group homes and shelters, by providing them with caring mentors who offer stability and help them to better their lives.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://paspecialfriends.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29677172/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://paspecialfriends.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Parenting Arizona Special Friends</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09571202053536696466</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>14</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29677172.post-116360743948851456</id><published>2006-11-15T09:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-11-15T09:17:19.496-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Special Friends Training 11/18/06</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3214/3168/1600/map.5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3214/3168/320/map.5.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our next training will be on November 18th at 10am at our phoenix offce (6741 North 7th Street, Phoenix, Arizona, 85014).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29677172-116360743948851456?l=paspecialfriends.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29677172/posts/default/116360743948851456'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29677172/posts/default/116360743948851456'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://paspecialfriends.blogspot.com/2006/11/special-friends-training-111806.html' title='Special Friends Training 11/18/06'/><author><name>Parenting Arizona Special Friends</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09571202053536696466</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='12718944336296726386'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29677172.post-116042163906765915</id><published>2006-10-09T12:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-10-09T12:20:39.076-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Special Friends Training</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3214/3168/1600/map.4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3214/3168/320/map.4.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our next training will be on August 12th at 10am at our phoenix offce (6741 North 7th Street, Phoenix, Arizona, 85014).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29677172-116042163906765915?l=paspecialfriends.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29677172/posts/default/116042163906765915'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29677172/posts/default/116042163906765915'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://paspecialfriends.blogspot.com/2006/10/special-friends-training.html' title='Special Friends Training'/><author><name>Parenting Arizona Special Friends</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09571202053536696466</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='12718944336296726386'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29677172.post-115680772230029550</id><published>2006-08-28T16:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-28T16:28:42.316-07:00</updated><title type='text'>September Monthly Mentions 1</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3214/3168/1600/Sept%20Monthly%20Mentions.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3214/3168/320/Sept%20Monthly%20Mentions.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29677172-115680772230029550?l=paspecialfriends.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29677172/posts/default/115680772230029550'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29677172/posts/default/115680772230029550'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://paspecialfriends.blogspot.com/2006/08/september-monthly-mentions-1.html' title='September Monthly Mentions 1'/><author><name>Parenting Arizona Special Friends</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09571202053536696466</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='12718944336296726386'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29677172.post-115680750021850169</id><published>2006-08-28T16:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-28T16:25:00.270-07:00</updated><title type='text'>September Monthly Mentions Page 2</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3214/3168/1600/sept%20month%202.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3214/3168/320/sept%20month%202.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29677172-115680750021850169?l=paspecialfriends.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29677172/posts/default/115680750021850169'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29677172/posts/default/115680750021850169'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://paspecialfriends.blogspot.com/2006/08/september-monthly-mentions-page-2.html' title='September Monthly Mentions Page 2'/><author><name>Parenting Arizona Special Friends</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09571202053536696466</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='12718944336296726386'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29677172.post-115524938492607520</id><published>2006-08-10T15:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-12T09:42:58.816-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Special Friend Mentor Training - In Tempe</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3214/3168/1600/tempe%20prev.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3214/3168/320/tempe%20prev.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3214/3168/1600/map.web.3.gif"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our next Special Friends Mentor training will be held on August 26th from 10am until noon at the Elias Rodriguez House located in Tempe, Arizona. The address is 927 East 8th Street, Tempe Arizona 85281. If you would like to attend the training please email &lt;a href="mailto:volunteers@parentingaz.org"&gt;volunteers@parentingaz.org&lt;/a&gt; by August 25th.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29677172-115524938492607520?l=paspecialfriends.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29677172/posts/default/115524938492607520'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29677172/posts/default/115524938492607520'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://paspecialfriends.blogspot.com/2006/08/special-friend-mentor-training-in.html' title='Special Friend Mentor Training - In Tempe'/><author><name>Parenting Arizona Special Friends</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09571202053536696466</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='12718944336296726386'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29677172.post-115497374550941544</id><published>2006-08-07T11:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-07T11:02:25.520-07:00</updated><title type='text'>New Special Friends Ad on NPR</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.4shared.com/file/2933962/79e857dd/ment01.html"&gt;Click HERE to listen!!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29677172-115497374550941544?l=paspecialfriends.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29677172/posts/default/115497374550941544'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29677172/posts/default/115497374550941544'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://paspecialfriends.blogspot.com/2006/08/new-special-friends-ad-on-npr.html' title='New Special Friends Ad on NPR'/><author><name>Parenting Arizona Special Friends</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09571202053536696466</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='12718944336296726386'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29677172.post-115385560621934943</id><published>2006-07-25T12:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-01T10:33:42.110-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Special Friends Mentor Training</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3214/3168/1600/map.3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3214/3168/320/map.3.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our next training will be on August 12th at 10am at our phoenix offce (6741 North 7th Street, Phoenix, Arizona, 85014).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29677172-115385560621934943?l=paspecialfriends.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29677172/posts/default/115385560621934943'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29677172/posts/default/115385560621934943'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://paspecialfriends.blogspot.com/2006/07/special-friends-mentor-training.html' title='Special Friends Mentor Training'/><author><name>Parenting Arizona Special Friends</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09571202053536696466</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='12718944336296726386'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29677172.post-115326436725795495</id><published>2006-07-18T16:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-18T16:17:14.966-07:00</updated><title type='text'>August Monthly Mention Page One</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3214/3168/1600/aug1.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3214/3168/320/aug1.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29677172-115326436725795495?l=paspecialfriends.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29677172/posts/default/115326436725795495'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29677172/posts/default/115326436725795495'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://paspecialfriends.blogspot.com/2006/07/august-monthly-mention-page-one.html' title='August Monthly Mention Page One'/><author><name>Parenting Arizona Special Friends</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09571202053536696466</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='12718944336296726386'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29677172.post-115326432629315776</id><published>2006-07-18T16:11:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-18T16:13:03.010-07:00</updated><title type='text'>August Monthly Mention Page Two</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3214/3168/1600/aug2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3214/3168/320/aug2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29677172-115326432629315776?l=paspecialfriends.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29677172/posts/default/115326432629315776'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29677172/posts/default/115326432629315776'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://paspecialfriends.blogspot.com/2006/07/august-monthly-mention-page-two.html' title='August Monthly Mention Page Two'/><author><name>Parenting Arizona Special Friends</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09571202053536696466</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='12718944336296726386'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29677172.post-115212011859095202</id><published>2006-07-05T10:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-07T11:04:29.243-07:00</updated><title type='text'>We have a NPR Ad</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.4shared.com/file/2933998/1ea5a20c/mentor.html"&gt;Click here for our NPR ad!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29677172-115212011859095202?l=paspecialfriends.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29677172/posts/default/115212011859095202'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29677172/posts/default/115212011859095202'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://paspecialfriends.blogspot.com/2006/07/we-have-npr-ad.html' title='We have a NPR Ad'/><author><name>Parenting Arizona Special Friends</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09571202053536696466</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='12718944336296726386'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29677172.post-115161019652066264</id><published>2006-06-29T12:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-05T11:51:38.130-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy Fourth Of July</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3214/3168/1600/july4th5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3214/3168/320/july4th5.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Special Friends program wishes you and your family a happy and safe 4th of July. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29677172-115161019652066264?l=paspecialfriends.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29677172/posts/default/115161019652066264'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29677172/posts/default/115161019652066264'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://paspecialfriends.blogspot.com/2006/06/happy-fourth-of-july.html' title='Happy Fourth Of July'/><author><name>Parenting Arizona Special Friends</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09571202053536696466</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='12718944336296726386'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29677172.post-115083920307225263</id><published>2006-06-20T14:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-06-20T15:48:24.773-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Monthly Mentions Page Two</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3214/3168/1600/july2.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3214/3168/320/july2.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29677172-115083920307225263?l=paspecialfriends.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29677172/posts/default/115083920307225263'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29677172/posts/default/115083920307225263'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://paspecialfriends.blogspot.com/2006/06/monthly-mentions-page-two.html' title='Monthly Mentions Page Two'/><author><name>Parenting Arizona Special Friends</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09571202053536696466</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='12718944336296726386'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29677172.post-115083863337618392</id><published>2006-06-20T14:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-06-20T14:23:53.386-07:00</updated><title type='text'>July Monthly Mentions Page One</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3214/3168/1600/july.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3214/3168/320/july.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29677172-115083863337618392?l=paspecialfriends.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29677172/posts/default/115083863337618392'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29677172/posts/default/115083863337618392'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://paspecialfriends.blogspot.com/2006/06/july-monthly-mentions-page-one.html' title='July Monthly Mentions Page One'/><author><name>Parenting Arizona Special Friends</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09571202053536696466</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='12718944336296726386'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29677172.post-115024438031743570</id><published>2006-06-13T17:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-06-15T08:59:37.523-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Mentoring Workshop</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3214/3168/1600/july22.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3214/3168/320/july22.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29677172-115024438031743570?l=paspecialfriends.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29677172/posts/default/115024438031743570'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29677172/posts/default/115024438031743570'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://paspecialfriends.blogspot.com/2006/06/mentoring-workshop.html' title='Mentoring Workshop'/><author><name>Parenting Arizona Special Friends</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09571202053536696466</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='12718944336296726386'/></author></entry></feed>