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Arizona Child and Family Advocacy Network (ACFAN)

ACFAN Member Centers' Pages

An Advocacy Center is a comprehensive, victim focused program based in a facility that allows law enforcement, child protection professionals, prosecutors, victim advocates, forensic interviewers, medical professionals and mental health providers to work together when intervening in and investigating violent crimes against children and adults. Advocacy Centers are designed by communities to meet their own needs, so there are many types of facilities in which centers exist. The overall goal of all Advocacy Centers is to ensure that the victims that are entrusted to the centers are not further victimized by the systems that are designed to protect them.

The Arizona Child & Family Advocacy Network provides support, training and guidance to all advocacy centers in Arizona and their professionals who coordinate services and respond to family violence and sexual assault. Efforts are made by all centers to accommodate special needs and multilingual populations.

• Learn about ACFAN
• Find the Arizona Advocacy Center nearest you
  (If this is an emergency, please call 911)
• Learn more about Advocacy Centers
• View the County Protocols for the Multidisciplinary Investigation of Child Abuse