Marsha Porter has dedicated her 30 year career to the well-being Arizona's children. She began her career with Child Protective Services (CPS) and occupied a number of direct service and administrative positions within the state child welfare system. For the last 13 years, Marsha has served as Executive Director of Crisis Nursery, Inc.

Through Marsha's leadership, Crisis Nursery has expanded; from providing short-term residential care and support services for 36 at-risk children to providing 42 residential beds and child care for over 120 children and their families every day. In the coming months and years, Crisis Nursery will be expanding these services to recruiting and supervising family foster homes and providing new support services to children in foster care and their families.

Marsha's experience in both the public and private sectors gives her a unique perspective of both the challenges and dilemmas facing Arizona's children and their families.

Natalie Miles-Thompson joined Crisis Nursery in 1999 as our Shelter Director. She moved into her current position in 2005 and coordinates all fundraising, development, communication and volunteer activities.

Michelle Joy joined Crisis Nursery in 2005. She manages all day-to-day operations of our Children's Shelter (36 beds) and Marcus House (6 beds). She is responsible for 60 shelter employees and an operating budget of over $2 million. She also serves as the primary liaison with Department of Economic Security (DES) who licenses the shelter and contracts with us for the provision of shelter beds to children in the custody of DES.

Kristin Andrew joined Crisis Nursery in 2002. Her responsibilities include overseeing the day-to-day operations and maintaining primary linkages with Department of Health Services (DHS) representatives who license FACES as a community childcare facility.

Mary Ann joined Crisis Nursery in 1991 and served as our Program Director at the Shelter until assuming responsibility for our Foster Home program and Supervised Visitation Program.