The Children’s Advocacy Centers of Tennessee (CACTN) is an organization representing 52 Child Advocacy Centers (CACs) across the state of Tennessee that provide critical services to children and families experiencing abuse. However, despite all of the valuable work the CACs were doing, Tennessee’s elected officials knew or understood little, about that work. Understanding that the CAC movement needed public advocacy if it was to remain effective and relevant, the CACTN board engaged a Nashville lobbyist to help with its advocacy work and teach it how to effectively advocate for the organization’s mission. In addition to working with the lobbyist, in 2016 CACTN also established a formal advocacy/legislative committee to identify key issues pending in the state legislature or with the state’s Department of Children’s Services that could impact its CAC members. With these changes, CACTN has gone from being an unknown entity to having three state legislators attending its 2017 conference. It has also successfully impacted legislation and secured a $450,000 budget amendment providing additional state funding for each of the CACs across the state.