What is a CAC?
The Child Advocacy Center (CAC) is a child-friendly, community-oriented facility based program in which professionals from core disciplines come together to discuss and recommend appropriate, comprehensive services to the victims of child abuse and neglect. The CAC chairs a group called the Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) where representatives from these agencies come together to ensure we are all working together as a community to lessen further trauma for the child and ensure that their future needs will be addressed.
Each Child Advocacy Center is unique to the needs of its community and is formed to best respond to those needs. The professionals in our community have been working in a collaborative manner for a period of time, however the Child Advocacy Center will further this approach through training, coordination and advocacy to victims and their families. The center will function as a shared project amongst professionals with a vested interest in supporting and treating child abuse victims throughout the investigation and prosecution of their abusers. Because of this center, families in our community now have a central location and coordinated team to walk with them through this process.
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