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Mission of Eve's Place: Supporting Any Victim of Domestic, Sexual and Teen Dating Abuse By Increasing Access To Services Through Mobile Advocacy. 

Eve's Place Inc. is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization headquartered in the West Valley of Maricopa County. Since 2004, Eve's Place has provided innovative and empowerment-based programs to victims of domestic, sexual and teen dating abuse. Eve's Place introduced the concept of the Mobile Advocacy Program for victims in the West Valley in October 2013. In February 2015, Eve’s Place expanded the Mobile Advocacy Program to a rural area, with an office in Quartzsite and a tribal area, with an office in Kayenta, AZ on the Navajo Nation. This program brings services to victims in their own communities regardless of their place in the healing process. It is our goal to reach the 75% of domestic abuse victims who historically did not reach out for services due to the lack of options. The Mobile Advocacy Program can provide all the services regularly available in a shelter without the bed for any victim of domestic abuse. Eve’s Place also offers a vast set of services to victims of sexual and teen dating abuse. We partner with community resources to provide local locations convenient and safe for the client and their needs and to increase the area of access for services.

We are proud that we are a leader in Arizona, in developing and maintaining innovative programs that provide needed assistance to victims of domestic abuse. 

Our Christmas program provides presents to our program Clients that are unable to provide presents to their families. The program is extremely important and grows every year as our capacity to reach more victims increases each year. 

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Funding

Eve's Place is very grateful to have funding from the community to support us. We take this opportunity to thank the following;
Teen - Abuse Donations in Sun City, AZ
Hands Together - Stop Abuse in Sun City, AZ

Arizona Department of Public Safety
Arizona Department of Economic Security
All of our wonderful Private Donors
Organizations including Churches, Clubs and Corporations
Fundraising events

Financial Status

For copies of our 990 Tax Return and information on our Non-Profit status, please contact our office at 623-537-5380.

Board of Directors

Lisa Gill – Board Chair 


Lisa Gill is the Vice President, Banking Center Manager for CIT Bank in Sun City West. She has over 35 years of banking experience. Lisa has been on the Eve’s Place Board since 2012 and Board Chair since 2018. Lisa is a Board Member for the Sun City West Alliance of Business & Community since 2015 and a Board Treasurer for The Surprise Youth Foundation since 2016.Lisa lives in Anthem with husband Joe of 31 years and has 2 daughters, Alicia & Kristina. Lisa enjoys reading and photography.

Myra Roper – Secretary


Myra Roper is a retired senior United States probation officer. She has been a board member since 2009 and is also on the fundraising and finance committees. Myra graduated from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff and received her MA from Fordham University in New York.

Jenniffer Powell - Treasurer


Jenniffer Powell is the Second Vice President, Retail Branch Manager of the Surprise location of Amtrust Bank, a division of New York Community Bank. Jenniffer began her partnership with Eve’s Place in 2005 as a volunteer and supporter. She and her team at Amtrust Bank created the annual NYCB Northpole experience for the clients of Eve’s Place which has been one of the most rewarding contributions mainly because of the immense community involvement from local business owners, other nonprofits and of course the many volunteers that help make it happen. Jenniffer is a Past President of the Rotary Club of Surprise as well. She is married to James Powell and they share six children between them. Eve’s Place has been a great organization for her husband and children to volunteer and make a difference. Get involved is the family motto.

Mónica Castañeda


Since 2001, Mónica has served in various leadership roles across the Maricopa Community College District. Mónica began her Student Affairs career at Phoenix College, she continued serving students through various programs district-wide in her position at the Maricopa Community College District Office in the Division of Academic and Student Affairs and adjunct Spanish faculty at both Phoenix College and Chandler- Gilbert Community College. Mónica joined Glendale Community College in December of 2012 as Associate Dean of GCC North Campus. Since January of 2014 Mónica has served in the capacity of Dean of Student Life and since August 2016 serves as Vice President of Student Affairs. Monica holds a Bachelor of Liberal Arts from Arizona State University, a Master of Educational Leadership from Northern Arizona University and is currently a doctoral student at Grand Canyon University. Mónica is passionate about serving students and strongly believes in the empowerment that higher education provides.

Sarah Tyree

Jeanne Casteen


Jeanne Casteen has a bachelor’s degree in human communication and history from the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at ASU and a master’s in education, also from ASU. Jeanne has over 11 years of experience teaching in Maricopa County’s public schools. In 2011, Jeanne completed the Emerge Arizona program and in 2012 became a school board member of the Creighton School District. She served as Board President from 2016 through 2020. In 2020, Ms. Casteen ran for Maricopa County School Superintendent, and came within 12,000 votes of winning. She has been awarded the Arizona School Public Relations Association Award for Excellence in Advocacy and Political Contributions to Education as well as the Arizona School Board Association’s All-Arizona School Board Member Award.

Board Meetings

Our Board meetings are held the third Monday of each month at 5 P.M. The meetings are held at our main office, located at 10448 W. Coggins, Sun City, AZ 85351. Please call our office at 623-537-5380 for directions.

Founder's Corner

Margaret (Marge) Pruitt Clark, PhD 

Marge Clark, the first President of the Eve's Place has had an eclectic career. After receiving her PhD in sociology she taught at several universities in the Washington D.C. area before moving to Brunswick, ME and teaching at Bowdoin College. After she left academia, she worked as a divorce mediator and a volunteer lobbyist. She was elected to three terms in the Maine House of Representatives, serving on the Human Resources Committee. 

While in the House, she worked as the Executive Director for the Adolescent Pregnancy Coalition. In 1992 she became the CEO of Advocates for Youth, a Washington D.C. based advocacy organization. Once moving to Arizona, she has worked as a Realtor for Ken Meade Realty. 

Marge has a long history of working for women. She was the Maine state coordinator and national “small state” coordinator for the National Organization for Women, and has served on the boards of the Family Planning Association, the Maine Women's Fund, and at the Arlington (VA) Home for Recovering Women. She is one of the contributors to the “Woman's Watch” column that appears monthly in the Daily News Sun.

Management Team

Laura – Chief Executive Officer
Laura has been with Eve’s Place since 2007 when she was hired as the first Executive Director. Laura started working with survivors of domestic violence in 1999 as a program director in a shelter program. She has worked in rural, metropolitan and most recently tribal based programs during this time. Laura completed her undergraduate degree in Child Development and Family Relations at the University of Arizona and has two Master’s Degrees from Colorado Technical University (Project Management and Program Management). Laura has concentrated her efforts, since beginning her work at Eve’s Place, in finding innovative models to make services to survivors more accessible. She has transitioned Eve’s Place from being a small grassroots organization solely serving survivors of domestic violence in the West Valley of Maricopa County to a progressive program focused on mobile advocacy services for survivors of domestic, sexual and teen dating violence in multiple locations throughout Arizona. Laura cofounded the mobile advocacy program in 2013, with the Chief Operating Officer, in an effort to reach survivors who do not access more traditional services. The mobile advocacy program now operates in metropolitan, rural and tribal locations in Arizona, California, Utah and New Mexico. Laura has forged partnerships with community non-profits, municipalities, private corporations and tribal governments to strengthen the network of options for survivors. Laura strives to include agency staff and survivors in program development to assure services are victim centered and inclusive. Most recently, Laura has joined the Arizona Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence as a Board member. She has participated in workshops and panels, both nationally and internationally, discussing the benefits and challenges of the mobile program. She is also the co-founder of V-MAAP, an organization that provides training and development assistance to programs across the country interested in providing mobile advocacy in their communities.
Marci –Chief Operating Officer
Marci has been with Eve’s Place since 2007. Starting her career in 2005 in a domestic violence shelter Marci’s passion has always been for the youth and teen victims. As the first Children’s Director of Eve’s Place in 2007, she developed the first children’s services the agency offered. By 2010, Marci became the Chief Operations Officer and oversaw the daily operations of the shelter. She, along with the CEO, changed the face of Eve’s Place in 2013 when they designed, developed and implemented the Mobile Advocacy Program in order to bring more accessibility to victims in the community. At the time it was the only program like it in the state allowing victims to receive services in urban, rural and tribal settings in a mobile advocacy capacity. She was instrumental in creating policies and procedures and later assisted with the design and implementation of the youth and legal departments. In 2017 Marci assisted in the development of the Best Practice Standards for the Arizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence with regard to mobile services for domestic violence victims. She has presented at both national and international conferences educating her peers on the innovative service delivery model. She is the co-founder of V-MAAP, an organization that provides training and development assistance to programs across country interested in providing mobile advocacy in their communities.
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