About Us

Advocacy Center for Crime Victims and Children began in 1976 as the Waco Rape Crisis Center, but over time, more programs and services have been added to better serve all victims of crime in McLennan, Bosque, Falls, Freestone, Hill and Limestone Counties. The core advocacy services for survivors of sexual assault and other violent crimes comprise the Victims Center program.  In 1996, the Children's Advocacy Center (CAC) program was established with multidisciplinary teams to track and investigate child abuse to better serve children under 18 that had made an outcry of abuse, if abuse or neglect is suspected or if they had witnessed a crime, and a building was purchased to house the umbrella agency. In January 2011, the Prevention and Education program was added to the umbrella and offers education related to preventing sexual violence in our communities. Program goals include increasing interventions to change attitudes, beliefs and behaviors supportive of all sexual violence, reducing the tolerance of and mobilizing the community to reduce sexual violence, and reducing the norms that support sexual violence.  The umbrella structure for the organization has proven effective in efficiently providing a continuum of care for crime victims in central Texas.