The Elder Protection Program helps people over the age of 50 or people with disabilities who are experiencing abuse or neglect. Services include: a 24-hour hotline, crisis intervention and support services, case management, help obtaining legal and social services, help with remote protection orders, safety planning, and assistance with locating accessible long-term housing.
Local Programs
This page has contact information for programs that offer help/referrals to victims of abuse throughout the state. If you plan to contact a program via email, please review our Safety when using email page first.
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Pima
Administration of Resources and Choices Elder Protection Program
Children's Advocacy Center of Southern Arizona
The Children’s Advocacy Center of Southern Arizona provides support to child victims of abuse and their non-offending family members in English and Spanish. The center is a child-sensitive environment where advocates provide customized support during the investigation process and the transition into additional support services. Services include: crisis counseling, pediatric medical evaluations, recorded forensic interviews, and more. They have on-site case coordination with medical professionals, law enforcement, the Department of Child Safety, victim advocates, and other professionals to make decisions together about how to best help the child.
Emerge Center Against Domestic Abuse
Emerge serves individuals and families experiencing domestic abuse by offering a confidential shelter facility, 24-hour multilingual hotline, and community-based services. Additional services include: individual support, adult and children’s support groups, housing stabilization, safety planning, education groups, child and family services, a men’s education program, referrals to other agencies, food, clothing, and other basic necessities. Emerge also offers legal services such as: remote requests for protection orders, referrals to lawyers and legal clinics, victims’ rights education, court preparation, assistance with citizenship, naturalization, Violence Against Women Act documentation, immigration issues, and more. Child and family support groups are available in English and Spanish.
Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation Anti-Violence Project
The SAAF Anti-Violence Project, formerly Wingspan, works to prevent, respond to, and end violence against and within the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning communities of southern Arizona. They advocate for survivors of domestic violence, intimate partner violence, sexual assault, dating violence, hate violence, and stalking. Their support line offers help in English and Spanish. Other services include: crisis intervention, safety planning, basic needs, assistance with orders of protection, support for court proceedings, emergency shelter for LGBTQ survivors who become homeless fleeing violence, and more.
Southern Arizona Center Against Sexual Assault
The Southern Arizona Center Against Sexual Assault (SACASA) offers bilingual (English/Spanish) and bicultural services to victims of sexual assault. SACASA serves primary and secondary victims and survivors of recent and past sexual assault. Their services include: crisis intervention, a 24-hour hotline, advocacy, support, therapy, and education for individuals, families, and the community. Serving Pima County and southern Arizona.
University of Arizona Campus Health Survivor Support Services
The Survivor Support Services provides individualized support to student survivors of all genders who have experienced interpersonal violence including intimate partner and dating violence, sexual assault, rape, cyber harassment, stalking, and abuse in any form. Services include: emotional support, academic support, safety planning, survivor support counseling, referrals to supportive programs and services, accompaniment in hearings/meetings, support in optional reporting, and more.
Pinal
A New Leaf’s Community Alliance Against Family Abuse
A New Leaf’s Community Alliance Against Family Abuse (CAAFA) program serves survivors of domestic and sexual violence. Services include: a 24-hour hotline, a 16-bed emergency shelter in a confidential location, support groups, counseling, legal advocacy, case management, sexual assault victim advocacy, food boxes, community outreach services, and more. Legal advocates can help survivors navigate through protection orders, divorce/custody/child support, victim’s compensation, safety planning, and referrals. As of 2021, CAAFA merged into A New Leaf. Serving Pinal and eastern Maricopa counties.
Against Abuse, Inc.
Against Abuse, Inc. (AAI) provides services to survivors of sexual violence, domestic violence, dating violence, sexual harassment, stalking, and human trafficking. Services include: a 24-hour hotline, shelter for families, crisis intervention, safety planning, case management, advocacy, emotional support, transitional living program, support groups, food and clothing assistance, referrals, Spanish interpretation services, and more. Lay legal advocacy is offered for: orders of protection, victim’s compensation, court accompaniment, victim impact statements, and more. AAI has an animal safe home network in the community of volunteers who can foster pets while the survivor is in the shelter. Services are available in person, virtually, by phone, and by email. Mobile and community advocates can meet survivors in safe places within their community, or at one of AAI’s community-based offices in Casa Grande or the city of Maricopa. Serving Pinal County.