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Healing, Justice, & Trust: How CACs prove (and improve) their work NCA’s Outcome Measurement System (OMS) helps CACs demonstrate their success to funders, lawmakers, and stakeholders, while helping centers… Continue Reading
Resources for CACs, Partners, and Caregivers In 20-25% of cases handled by Children’s Advocacy Centers (CACs), youth or children under age 18 have acted out against another child.1 Research also… Continue Reading
NCA and its Accredited Member Children’s Advocacy Centers (CACs) entered into a partnership with the FBI in 2015 to ensure that all children who need an evidence-based intervention that helps them… Continue Reading
The American Counseling Association’s Traumatology Interest Network (2014) defines vicarious trauma as “the emotional residue from hearing other people’s trauma stories and becoming witness to the pain, fear, and terror… Continue Reading
Teresa Huizar, National Expert on Child Abuse Intervention and Trauma Treatment Teresa Huizar (pron. WEE-zar) is executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based National Children’s Alliance. She has served at every… Continue Reading
NCA’s 2017 Leadership Conference, held June 4-7, 2017, in Washington, D.C., aims to provide continuing education, networking opportunities and exposure to innovative programs and ideas for Children’s Advocacy Center leaders. Each… Continue Reading
The 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… Continue Reading
Nanook’s Story Nanook works as a facility dog at Michael’s House Child Advocacy Center in Fairborn, Ohio. Nanook is trained to provide a calming presence for abused children… Continue Reading
Pecos’s Story Pecos was raised from a pup to be a facility dog to help people with special needs. Turns out he’s not so great at hard work, but he’s… Continue Reading
Nala’s Story Nala once wandered the inner city streets of Toledo, Ohio, until a local therapist that helps abused kids found her and adopted her. Her gentle nature made her… Continue Reading