Each year, the Amado Chili Cook-off is planned, organized, and supported by community volunteers working alongside PPEP staff. The 2023 Amado Chili Cook-off Planning Committee is currently in great need of, and seeking support. Please contact ACCO Event Chair Ed Dunin-Wasowicz to join the committee or get involved. Please call (520) 403-0414, ed@dwmcgarrity.com

All profits from the 2023 Amado Chili Cook-off will go directly to the New Amado Youth Center Building Fund to complete the construction and furnish the interior to support the current and future PPEP programs and Projects serving Amado area youth and families. Current funded programs include: Amado After School Botvin Life Skills Training, funded by the AZ Governor’s Office of Youth, Faith and Family (GOYFF, JJDP) Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention; The Amado Teen Project, funded by Pima County Community Development Block Grant (CDBG); The THRIVE Resiliency Skills Program, funded by AZ GOYFF Trauma Informed Substance Abuse Prevention Program (TISAPP); The Fuerza Information is Power Project, funded by Pima County Health Department (PCHD); the Advancing Health Literacy Project, funded by PCHD, and the Partnerships for Success Project and Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking Projects, funded by the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).