Slide into a Joya Playgroup!

We are excited to announce Community Playgroups that are free and open to children of various ages! Storytime Join us for a community storytime with your toddler. Enjoy stories and playtime with your little one! Every Tuesday 9:30am – 10:30am All ages welcome Parents required to stay Contact: rebekah.edvalson@joya.org Family Playtime Movement and ans sensory…

Help Kiddos like Ethan this Holiday Season

“When Ethan started at Joya, Steven and I felt uncertainty and fear about what this might mean. These feelings were quickly put at ease by the reassurance and kindness of the staff at Joya. It is because of Ethan’s dedicated therapists that we have witnessed remarkable growth and progress in his development. Ethan has overcome…

Meet Lola

That smile. That spunk. To look at little Lola today, you’d never know how much she’s overcome in her short life.  Lola’s parents, Amanda and Derek, learned that she had a had a congenital heart defect, known as transposition of the great arteries, when Amanda was 24 weeks pregnant. Lola would need open heart surgery shortly…

Support our Uncompensated Care Fund

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched…but are felt in the heart.” – Helen Keller   For more than 60 years, first as the Spokane Guilds’ School and now as Joya Child & Family Development, we have relied on the generous and caring hearts of so many in…

Dick Boysen Receives Providence Humanitarian Award

Providence Health Care awarded Dick Boysen as the 2019 recipient of the Sister Peter Claver Humanitarian Award. After 41 years of service, Boysen recently retired as executive director of Joya Child & Family Development Center, formerly Spokane Guilds’ School. Boysen spent his entire career advocating for children and people of all ages who experience a…