John Lewis

President and CEO

PHX East Valley Partnership

Financed by the Arizona Board of Regents’ Technology and Research Initiative Fund (TRIF) through a Regents’ Community Grant, collaborative teams at Arizona State University, Northern Arizona University, the University of Arizona, and Morrison Institute for Public Policy convened to examine challenges and opportunities for Arizona's public safety workforce.

Morrison Institute works with nonprofits, governmental agencies and other organizations throughout the state on program evaluation

The following study reviewed the 911 calls and response times for the Phoenix Fire Department. While the call volume increased 120% from 2015 to 2022, the average response times did not increase. Additional overtime data and interviews were used to gauge the PFD’s ability to maintain response times and explore the impacts of this additional workload.

This policy and program review takes a look at a few effective, unique, and innovative policies and programs that states are employing to reduce or mitigate the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). For this review, researchers considered the top six most challenging ACEs in Arizona as compared to other states.

Brian Spicker

President and CEO

Maricopa Community Colleges Foundation

Janice Palmer

Senior Vice President, Government Affairs and Public Policy

Helios Education Foundation

This explainer takes a look at the updates to the Certificate of Assured Water Supply and how it will impact housing affordability. To ensure long-term water supplies for current residents, the state has imposed limitations on some new housing subdivisions and other types of development.

The State of Arizona has released a new 100-year groundwater model for Greater Phoenix, showing that the area’s groundwater is fully allocated. While the model results will not impact cities, towns, and private water providers that have a Designation of an Assured Water Supply (the vast majority of Phoenix-area communities), the model results may have implications for the patterns and rates of new home development.

Access to safe, reliable, affordable drinking water is the foundation of public health, economic opportunity, and quality of life in any community. Yet, significant challenges associated with providing and maintaining this access exist across Arizona, perhaps most acutely on Native American reservations and in small, physically isolated rural communities across the state.