The Family Crisis Unit is located at The Family Justice Center  and is currently supervised by Lt. Jeanette Harris The Family Crisis Unit handles all calls related to Domestic Violence, Child Abuse, and Elder Abuse.  The city/county of Knoxville/Knox was awarded a $1,077,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to create a Family Justice Center, which serves as a one-stop resource center for domestic violence victims and their children. The center, which began operation in May 2006, is supported by more than 60 partner agencies.     The Detectives of this unit have various responsibilities, which include writing incident reports and reviewing all reports written by patrol officers. Also, the detectives contact victims within 72 hours of the initial incident. The detectives conduct on scene investigation, as well as hospitals and office interviews of victims and suspects. They assist victims in obtaining warrants as well as conducting community prevention and awareness programs. The detectives interview children involved in physical or sexual child abuse incidents at Child Help USA.     The Victim Advocates contact victims within 72 hours of reported incidents and assist victims in filing orders of protection and developing a personal safety plan. The Victim Advocates also assist victims during their court proceedings and coordinate community support services, prevention and awareness.   The Family Crisis Unit was established in 1995. Since then this unit has assisted over 200,000 Knox County residents.  The unit is available twenty-four hours a day to assist victims. Detectives as well as Victim Advocates are assigned to this unit. The personnel assigned to this unit can be reached at (865) 215-6820 from 8 AM to 4:30 PM Monday - Friday. After 4:30 PM you may call (865) 215-2243.