"Expanding our home to cover all children."

Founded in 1993, Harmony Home Children’s Advocacy Center (HHCAC) in Odessa exists to lessen the trauma and heal the hurt of abuse to children and their families through interviewing, therapy, victim services, investigation, and prosecution; and prevent child abuse through education and community awareness.  

Since our agency began, Harmony Home Children’s Advocacy Center (HHCAC) has fought for justice and healing for all abused children in West Texas. Now spanning seven counties (Ector, Ward, Reeves, Winkler, Pecos, Crane, and Upton), HHCAC serves on average over 550 children each year. 

We deliver direct and indirect services to children and their non-offending caregivers throughout the Permian Basin through CPT investigation, prosecution, and treatment. In 2014, we increased our impact by providing prevention education focused on equipping adults with the knowledge in recognizing, reacting, and reporting child sexual abuse. As of 2019, we now provide engaging abuse prevention lessons in the schools to further empower and protect the children of our seven communities.   

To continue appropriately serving families and children that have been impacted by abuse or neglect and advance our strides in prevention education and awareness in the growing counties we serve, HHCAC must expand. 

Currently, HHCAC staff are spread across two buildings. While direct services and mental health staff assist clients at the Grant Avenue location, Administrative and Prevention staff conduct business at the Whitaker Avenue office.  

Limited space impacts the number of staff that can be hired, also hindering the ability to offer comprehensive, trauma-informed services with our CPT partners in the most efficient and effective way. This separation strains opportunities for prompt department collaboration and staff bonding. 

Added urgency requires a response. For 30 years, HHCAC has responded to the urgent outcry of child abuse throughout the Permian Basin.  Now is the time to respond to the need for all HHCAC services and staff to exist under one roof.

By fulfilling the need to offer all services for families in one location including SANE (Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners) exams and space for our CPT partners, HHCAC will complete the vision our founders had in 1993: moving into a permanent home under one roof. A vision that requires needed renovations to the current Grant Avenue facility and a 10,000 square foot ‘haven of hope’ expansion to our existing property. The renovations and expansion would meet current space needs and increase our organizational capacity to ensure sustainability for future generations.