A children’s advocacy center (CAC) is a child-focused, facility-based program where representatives from many disciplines collaborate to make decisions about investigation, treatment, intervention, and prosecution of child abuse cases. The CAC’s multidisciplinary team comprises all the professionals and agencies needed to offer comprehensive services to child victims and their families, including law enforcement, child protective services, prosecution, mental health, medical, and victim advocacy.
- Better Together: Children’s Advocacy Centers
- Changing the Child Abuse System: Robin’s story
- Efficacy of the Child Advocacy Center Model from the National Children’s Advocacy Center
- Healing, Justice and Trust, A National Report on Outcomes for Children’s Advocacy Centers
- National Children’s Policy Brief
- Snapshot 2017: Advocacy, Efficacy, and Funding of CACs from NCA
Videos
- What is a CAC? from NCA
- Overview of Services from Children's Advocacy Center of Suffolk County
- CAC Video from CAC of Kennebec and Somerset Counties
- Child Abuse: Stars in the Field - Children's Advocacy Centers from Massachusetts Children's Alliance
- Video Gallery from Children’s Advocacy Centers of Texas