Throughout the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s until present day, Scottsdale Community Partners (formerly CCCH) has assisted the City of Scottsdale staff by encouraging the integration of all cultures into the community.įrances lived and celebrated Scottsdale for more than 50 years. She summed up her life by saying, “I’ve gained far more than I ever gave”. Frances was fondly known as the mayor of South Scottsdale. She strongly believed it takes a village. The Paiute Neighborhood Center is a legacy to the work that she and commission members urged Scottsdale’s city staff members to undertake during the late 1980s to benefit Spanish speaking immigrants from Mexico. Young has worked to create a safer, healthier, more productive community. While serving on the city Human Services Commission, she helped initiate the utility bill donation fund and the Scottsdale Cares Program that gives more than $220,000 annually to nonprofit organizations. She founded Concerned Citizens for Community Health in 1975 (located at Vista del Camino Center) to meet social service needs of low-income families. Her contributions include establishing an English as a Second Language program in schools, starting Indian education, Head Start and Title I programs, and starting the Vista del Camino Community Center. She embraced all people and was an advocate for their quality of life, whether Yaqui, Hispanic, Asian, Black or White. A long-time champion of minorities’ rights, Frances worked tirelessly for 40 years to create a safer, healthier, more productive community. Frances helped create a church council that raised the money to buy the Yaqui community a sewer system and provide health and educational programs. Daniel’s Catholic Church nearby for help with the urgent housing and sewage problems. In 1966, Frances became an ombudsman for the Yaqui community adjacent to Vista del Camino, when the community leaders asked St. Frances turned the new 3-bedroom house into a home for their 6 children. Frances Young, a Navy Waves Veteran, and her family moved to Scottsdale when Frances’ husband purchased one of the only homes available in South Scottsdale when his work moved him to Phoenix.

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