Our Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Foothills Child Advocacy Center is open to serve children who are alleged victims of abuse and their families. There is not a way to offer many of our services via phone call or video conference. Please be assured that we are taking extra steps to clean the facility between clients and to mitigate the risk to clients, our partners, and our staff.

Follow this link to download a guide that will help your family to cope with the COVID-19 situation. 

Follow this link for more resources.

Together, we can keep kids safe and reduce their trauma.
​Children and Families Coming to Foothills
Please help us to be able to continue to help children and families during this time by following these safe practices.
  • If you or your child are coughing, sneezing, or have a fever now or in the last two weeks and have a forensic interview scheduled, please do not come to Foothills. Please tell the investigator or Foothills staff that you or your child are sick. Except in emergency cases, they will reschedule when you or your child feel better.
  • If you or your child have been exposed to someone who has the coronavirus in the last two weeks, please do not come to Foothills. Please ask to have your appointment rescheduled.
  • If you or your child have traveled internationally in the last two weeks, please do not come to Foothills. Please ask to have your appointment rescheduled.
  • If you and/or your child have appointments for mental health counseling at Foothills, the mental health clinician will contact you to see if these appointment could be done over the phone or via a video call. 
  • You, your child, and the investigators will be required to wear masks and to use hand sanitizer upon arriving at Foothills.
  • Please help us to supervise the use of hand sanitizer by children.
  • We will not leave hand sanitizer on low tables or within the reach of young children, as it is poisonous when ingested.
  • At the end of each client appointment AND at the end of the day, Foothills staff will clean the facility, especially all surfaces with frequent handling—doorknobs, cabinet pulls, sink handles, playroom tables, forensic interview tables, etc.--with medical sanitizing wipes.​​
General Prevention Measures
  • Wash hands with soap or sanitizer for 20 seconds (moisturize your hands after washing them to prevent cracks in skin which can admit the virus—but do not use a communal lotion bottle, as it can become colonized with bacteria and viruses).
  • Don’t touch your eyes, nose, or mouth with unwashed hands.
  • Avoid contact with sick people.
  • Sanitize and clean surfaces at home and at work frequently.
  • If you cough or sneeze do so in your elbow or in a tissue and immediately throw the tissue away. Wash your hands immediately after coughing or sneezing.
  • If you are ill, stay home.
  • If you have a temperature of 100.4 or more; if your illness involves coughing or sneezing; and if your illness includes shortness of breath, please stay home. 

Follow this link for more information.