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The Care Process Model for Pediatric Traumatic Stress (CPM-PTS)

Child abuse thrives when good people decide it’s none of their business. During the pandemic, many kids are trapped where they’re most likely to suffer abuse, and kept away from the caring professionals who usually spot and report it. In fact, our statistics show that this year, our member CACs reached some 32,000 fewer children… Continue Reading

#BeThereNow

Child abuse thrives when good people decide it’s none of their business. During the pandemic, many kids are trapped where they’re most likely to suffer abuse, and kept away from the caring professionals who usually spot and report it. In fact, our statistics show that this year, our member CACs reached some 32,000 fewer children… Continue Reading

2022 CAC Coverage Maps

National Children’s Alliance is dedicated to making Children’s Advocacy Center (CAC) services available to every child in the country.  To monitor progress on this mission, NCA creates maps each year depicting CAC locations and select details about the areas they cover. To find out more about CAC coverage in your state, click on the applicable… Continue Reading

#ItsYourBusiness

Child abuse thrives when good people decide it’s none of their business. During the pandemic, many kids are trapped where they’re most likely to suffer abuse, and kept away from the caring professionals who usually spot and report it. In fact, our statistics show that this year, our member CACs reached some 32,000 fewer children… Continue Reading

2018 CAC Coverage Maps

National Children’s Alliance is dedicated to making Children’s Advocacy Center (CAC) services available to every child in the country. To monitor progress on this mission, NCA creates maps each year for all 50 states that depict CAC locations and select details about the areas they cover. To find out more about CAC coverage in your… Continue Reading

Listen Deeper, and Act on What You Hear

Children’s Advocacy Centers (CACs) work through the strength of partnership—no single professional or agency can counter child abuse on their own, and survivors need and deserve support when abuse comes to light. Being a good partner means being a good active listener, and active listening is the main medium in which CACs do their work…. Continue Reading

Thriving Kids 2019

A National Report on Mental Health Outcomes in Children’s Advocacy Centers   NCA, along with our nationwide network of Children’s Advocacy Centers, State Chapters, and partners, have spent the last 10 years creating and executing a strategy to achieve one goal: to help kids thrive.   Evidence-based, trauma-focused mental health treatments help kids recover from… Continue Reading

Healing, Justice, and Trust 2016

  Healing, Justice, & Trust: How CACs prove (and improve) their work Children’s Advocacy Centers (CACs) provide children and families with healing and justice in a setting they can trust. We know they do because of more than 60,000 survey responses we collect each year from caregivers and partners. NCA’s Outcome Measurement System (OMS) helps… Continue Reading

Healing the Future

How the evidence-based mental healthcare CACs provide improves the lives of children. Child abuse and other forms of childhood trauma can have lifelong effects on children, families, and communities. Many studies have shown the strong relationship between childhood trauma and serious outcomes such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, anxiety, substance use, physical health problems,… Continue Reading