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.
Family Navigation
Family Navigation provides personalized support to help families identify their needs, set goals, create a plan, and connect with resources and services that can help their family thrive.
Parenting Education
The FRC offers classes, community learning opportunities, and individual support to help parents build practical skills, strengthen family relationships, and feel more confident in their parenting.
Resource Connection
Family Navigators help families find and connect with local resources and services that can support their needs, including food, housing, employment, financial assistance, and other community resources.
Youth Shelter
Foundry Home provides a safe place for youth ages 12–17 who are homeless, have run away, or have experienced trafficking. Youth can reach out for help without having to meet a long list of requirements. Our staff are available 24/7 to provide support and guidance, with private rooms, meals, transportation to appointments, and access to counseling through the Rise Up counseling program.
Case Management
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.
Call or Text 24/7 888-808-2775
Parent Education
Education groups are provided in detention facilities and treatment settings for parents who are separated from their children. Groups focus on building parenting skills, understanding children’s needs, strengthening relationships, and supporting healthy family connections.
Case Management
Individualized case management and ongoing follow-up help parents identify needs, work through barriers, connect with resources, and receive continued check-ins and support as they work toward their goals and maintaining connections with their children and families.
Making Reading Memories
Making Reading Memories helps parents maintain connection through the shared experience of reading. Parents participate in a reading workshop and have the opportunity to create a personalized recording. With caregiver permission, our team sends the recording, a copy of the book, and a teddy bear to the child as a meaningful way to stay connected.
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
Sexual Assault Exams
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 Exams
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.
Call or Text 24/7 575-303-7070
Trauma Counseling
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.
Practice Self Regulation
Practice Self-Regulation Therapy helps children and youth learn how to understand and manage their emotions, thoughts, and behaviors. Through simple activities and skills, they learn ways to feel calmer, handle stress, and respond to difficult situations.
Free Transportation to Appointments
Dependable, free rides to medical, mental health, and essential service appointments for individuals who face transportation barriers.
Improved Access to Care
Helps reduce missed appointments and supports better health outcomes by making it easier for individuals to access the services and treatment they need.
Outreach Services
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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
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Mandated Reporter Training
Circle of Security
Relationship-based parenting program that helps caregivers better understand children’s emotional needs and strengthen secure, healthy relationships. Through practical tools and guided reflection, caregivers learn how to respond to children with greater confidence, connection, and compassion.
MANDT
Trauma-informed approach that focuses on building positive relationships, reducing conflict, and responding safely and respectfully to challenging situations. The program equips staff and caregivers with practical skills to support safety, dignity, and emotional well-being.
