LE Flore County Child Advocacy Network Inc.

LE Flore County Child Advocacy Network Inc. is a non-profit organization registered to receive federal grant awards. It provides forensic interviews, sexual assault exams, evidence-based therapy, and advocacy services to child abuse victims and their families in Leflore and Latimer counties in rural southeastern Oklahoma.

LE Flore County Child Advocacy Network Inc. has received a $699,337 Project Grant from the Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women under the Rural Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Assistance Program. This 36-month grant will fund activities to decrease recidivism and improve investigations of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking in rural Oklahoma through a dedicated investigator and prosecutor. It will also expand access to victim services and community education on healthy relationships and stalking prevention via a full-time advocate. Additionally, the grant will address sexual assault cases involving adults and children through the services of a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) practitioner. LE Flore County Child Advocacy Network Inc. will partner with the Leflore County Child Advocacy Network, Women's Crisis Services, and District 16 District Attorney to deliver these services. The organization has also received several sub-awards from the Oklahoma District Attorneys Council and National Children's Alliance Inc. for providing services like forensic interviews, sexual assault exams, counseling, and advocacy for child abuse victims. It has utilized these funds to purchase equipment such as masks, thermometers, computers, and sanitizing supplies during the pandemic.