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In 2008, Help A Child, Inc. became a fully accredited Children's Advocacy Center. Children's Advocacy Centers are community-based facilities providing solutions to caring for victims of child abuse. The Children's Advocacy Center model is effective because of the unique multi-disciplinary community response to child abuse that encourages law enforcement, prosecutors, child protective services, and the medical and mental health professions to work together as a collaborative team to investigate and prosecute cases of child abuse. As a result, CAC programs work to minimize trauma, break the cycle of abuse and provide communities with an added bonus: increased prosecution rates for perpetrators. Children's Advocacy Centers are community partnerships dedicated to a coordinated team approach by professionals pursuing the truth in child abuse investigations. By bringing together professionals from law enforcement, criminal justice, child protective services, victim advocacy agencies and the medical and mental health communities, CACs provide comprehensive services for child victims and their families. Children's Advocacy Centers aren't focused on suffering, they are focused on solutions. The Children's Advocacy Center (CAC) model is a beacon of hope for abused children throughout the nation, providing comprehensive services in one community-based facility. Necessary medical, emotional, legal, investigative, and victim advocacy services collaborate to promote a child friendly system - ensuring that children are not further victimized by the agencies and professionals whose intension is to protect them.
For more information on justice for children Child Welfare Resources on line: National Clearinghouse for Child Abuse and Neglect Information Child Welfare Training Resources On-Line
National Children's Advocacy Center's Research Library
National Center For Missing & Exploited Children
The Child Abuse Prevention Network
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