Affirming Heart Victim Services
Services by Program
Forensic Interviewing​
Child forensic interviews are conducted to avoid multiple interviews. Trained interviews speak with children while investigators watch from another room. Interviews are developmentally and culturally sensitive, unbiased, fact-finding, and legally sound.
Advocacy Assistance​
Victim advocates are available to provide needed crisis intervention, safety planning, protection order assistance, ongoing support, access to additional services and resources needed by the child & family, including access to Crime Victim's funds
Abuse Prevention Programs​
Prevention Programs are a vital part of the CAC's services. The My Body
Is Mine! & Kid Detective Programs are presented in all area elementary schools. Middle and High School programs are also available.
Adult Prevention Programs give adults the tools they need to protect the children in our community.
Outreach Services​
Trainings:
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Darkness To Light
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Reporting Abuse
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Signs and Symptoms of Abuse
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Mandated Reporter Training
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Quarterly Community Training's on Child Abuse Topics
Cavern City & Lea Co. Child Advocacy Centers
Call or Text 24/7 888-808-2775
Foundry Home Youth Shelter
Foundry Home is a low-barrier shelter for homeless, runaway, or trafficked youth, ages 12-17. Support and guidance is provided 24/7 by our shelter staff. Shelter features include: private rooms, shared living room, provided meals, and transportation for appointments. Youth also have the option to participate in counseling services through the Rise Up counseling program.
Youth are provided individualized and collaborative case management to effectively assess, plan, and evaluate progress to better meet youth's needs. Support is provided throughout the youth's stay at the shelter, and continued even after the youth has left.
Youth Ambassadors
The purpose of the Youth Ambassadors program is to help get the word out to youth in need that may not know where to go for help. Youth Ambassadors are youth volunteers, who provide information and share their knowledge with peers in the community that may be runaways or believed to be at risk of homelessness.
Learn More over on our Foundry Home page.
Trauma counseling is built on the understanding of how traumatic experiences affect an individual's mental, emotional and physical well-being. This therapy aims to help children, adolescents and adult survivors heal from the effects of trauma by offering skills to better understand and cope with the processing of emotions and memories tied to traumatic experiences.
Groups provide a space for the expression of emotions, with a focus on safety and support; and offer a way to connect with others with similar challenges, which may provide feelings of acceptance, connection, and normalization of responses. Separate groups for youth & adults of various topics are offered periodically throughout the year.
First Responder Support
Our goal is to help support our first responder partner agencies: law enforcement, child protective services, and educators. We encourage them to prioritize and normalize their mental health. Clinicians provide education about the pressures and dynamics of working in crisis and the impact that prolonged exposure and continuous high stress can have on them.
Learn More about counseling services over on our Rise Up page.
Rise Up Counseling
Call or Text 24/7 575-303-7070
SPEAK Sexual Assault & Domestic Violence Program
Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) programs provide medical/forensic exams for individuals who have been sexually assaulted. SANE services include a physical assessment, emergency contraception, injury documentation, forensic photography, and evidence collection up to five days after the sexual assault. Exams may done with or without the involvement of law enforcement.
Intimate Partner exam services include strangulation Injury and Head Injury Screening, injury documentation, forensic photography, and evidence collection, and safety planning up to 30 days after the assault. Exams may done with or without the involvement of law enforcement.
Outreach Services​
Trainings:
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Reporting Abuse
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Survivor Rights
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Signs and Symptoms of Abuse
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Strangulation Lethality Awareness
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Healthy Relationships
Advocacy Assistance​
Victim advocates are available to provide needed crisis intervention, safety planning, protection order assistance, ongoing support, access to additional services and resources needed by the child & family, including access to Crime Victim's funds
Enhanced supervision provides extended visits to better suite the needs of families. These visitations are meant to provide "Organic" parenting situations in locations, that may include: parks, school functions, grocery stores, church, parent's home. This program purpose is to lay the path towards reunification and provides support during each step of the process.
Parent Coaching​
Coaches will work with parents to create an individualized plan that sets clear, achievable goals for visitation, making the process both more enjoyable and more effective for the parent and child. Coaches provide parents with feedback during the visits, as well preparation before and review after every visit.
