Children's Advocacy Center of Southern Arizona, AZ
The Children’s Advocacy Center of Southern Arizona (CACSOAZ), a nonprofit organization based in and serving Pima County, Arizona with a demonstrated record of serving Hispanic and low-income victims of family violence and their children, will expand its capacity to serve adult, child, and youth victims/survivors and prevent future domestic violence. Through expanded services for abused parents and their children that includes co-located services for counseling, legal services, shelter, financial support, and assistance through the criminal justice process, CACSOAZ will double the number of families it currently serves and provide substantive data to build the knowledge base for domestic violence programs, supporting the purpose of the funding and including all required activities.
Leveraging its 28-year history, the Family Justice Center best practice program model, and many successful partnerships, CACSOAZ will provide:
-Counseling for adult victims and families, including early childhood mental health services.
-Services that are developmentally, age, culturally, and linguistically appropriate.
-Advocacy on behalf of victims/survivors, with a focus on coordination with child welfare.
-Services for non-abusing parents/caregivers and in responding to the needs of their children.
-Services that work with the non-abusing parent and child together, where appropriate.
-Coordination with and technical assistance for local victim service providers.
-Children’s services, such as childcare/education, transportation, supervised visits and respite.
