What We Do

Serving NW Colorado, since 1978 in Moffat County and in Rio Blanco County in 2021. The agency was founded as Advocates Crisis Support Services (ACSS), in 2018 it merged with Memorial Regional Health, currently Open Heart Advocates is a DBA under the Community Clinics at Memorial Regional Health (CCMRH) and is now in the transition to Advocates-Crisis, Trauma and Survivor Services (ACTSS) to be completed in January of 2024, as once again a stand alone 501c3 Community based non profit.

Since 2021, ACTSS/OHA contains three arms of victim services: Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and all other VRA Crimes, as well as Community Response for Crisis and Trauma events including Behavioral Health and the Bears Ears Critical Incident Stress Management Team. Through local, state, and federal funding and donations Advocates  provides to the community for free 24 hour on scene response services dispatched through our locally staffed 24/7 hotline and long term follow up services and supports, with scene and office hours.