Claire Lounge
Executive Director
Prevent Child Abuse Arizona
Bio:
Claire Louge is the Executive Director of Prevent Child Abuse Arizona (PCAAZ), a statewide non-profit organization dedicated to protecting children by strengthening families. Claire obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Human Development from Cornell University and her Masters of Education from NAU. Claire is also certified to teach the Strengthening Families™ Protective Factors Framework, and speaks on a number of topics related to community solutions to child maltreatment and professional resilience. Claire is a part of Together for Arizona, a collaborative advancing child safety and well-being; and serves on Arizona’s Thriving Families Safer Children initiative, which focuses on addressing racial disparities for African Americans in the child welfare system. She also chairs the Prevention Workgroup of the Governor’s Council on Child Safety and Family Empowerment. Claire co-authored Flourishing Families, an activity-based curriculum designed for professionals to teach families to build protective factors in their lives. She is a Flinn Brown Fellow, a graduate of the American Express Nonprofit Leadership Academy, a Leading for Change Fellow, an AmeriCorps VISTA alum, and has a Certificate of Nonprofit Executive Leadership from the ASU Lodestar Center. In her volunteer time, Claire organizes theatrical role play adventure events for teens in partnership with youth-serving organizations. She is a mom of a daughter named Kira, a Scrabble enthusiast, and loves shopping at thrift stores.
