New Playgroup Added

We are excited to announce a new Community Playgroup for infants & toddlers. Check out all the different playgroups at Joya 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…

Car Raffle

THE WINNING RAFFLE TICKET WAS DRAWN ON JUNE 14, 2024, AND THE WINNER WAS NOTIFIED. THE WINNING TICKET NUMBER IS #04250. THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO SUPPORTED JOYA’S CAR RAFFLE.   ————————————– Enter to win a new car and help support Joya at the same time. Thanks to our friends at Findlay Downtown Toyota, Joya…

Join the Donut Dash

Join us for our inaugural Donut Dash on June 1, 2024 and raise funds for children with developmental delays and disabilities. All proceeds directly benefit the program to ensure children can receive services they need, regardless of their family’s ability to pay. Learn more here or view our commercial. We hope you can join us…

Prechtl Course Offered

Prechtl’s General Movement Assessment: Basic Course Sponsored by Joya Child and Family Development August 15-18th, 2024 Thursday-Saturday 8am-4pm Sunday 8am-12pm Course Instructor:  Colleen Peyton, PT, DPT Dr. Peyton is an Assistant Professor of Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences at Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.  Course Coordinators:  Ginette Kerkering, PT, DPT, ginette.kerkering@joya.org  Sarah Nicolarsen, PT, DPT,…

Telethon Hits Goal!

UPDATE: Wow! What a morning! We are so grateful to everyone who called in and supported our annual telethon on NonStop Local KHQ’s Wake-Up Show this past Saturday. We raised more than $54,000!!! Heartfelt thanks to KHQ’s Hayley Guenthner, Bradley Warren and Tim Adams for sharing our stories and to all our amazing families, alumni…

Meet Some of our Amazing Kiddos

We would like to introduce you to some of the amazing children and families who have benefitted from the services of Joya! Just click the links below to read on and see how early intervention has impacted the lives of current and alumni children. Meet Jackson: Read his story here! Meet Daniel and Bennett: Ready their…

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…