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About Hardship Waivers for Individual CAC Subawards

NCA recognizes that, for some individual CACs, subaward funds may be crucial to operating a CAC or providing services. That’s why CACs that are experiencing hardship may apply for a… Continue Reading

How NCA Gets Federal Funding Flowing to CACs and Partners

  Every year, NCA leads our field in advocating for federal funding for CACs through the Victims of Child Abuse Act (VOCAA). While Congress appropriated $21 million under VOCAA to… Continue Reading

OMS Webinars

National Webinars We offer a two-part training series for OMS twice a year (in the summer and winter), but you can watch recordings of previous trainings at any time. Training… Continue Reading

OMS Documents

OMS Brochure: We heard from CACs that you want a quick and easy way to describe the OMS program to new staff, MDT members, boards, funders, and the public. To… Continue Reading

Use Your Results: Telling Your Story Through OMS

The first step to using your OMS data is knowing where to find it within your online account.  Our Part Two training webinar is specifically designed to walk you through… Continue Reading

2014

Monthly Newsletters 2014 May April March February January Monday Morning Message 2014

Addressing Youth and Children with Problematic Sexual Behaviors

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

What bits do what? An international lens on the complexities of the CAC model

In Australia, Children’s Advocacy Centers (CACs) have been raised as a way to improve responses to child abuse based on the demonstrated benefits of this approach in the United States…. Continue Reading

Extending Jenna’s Law to Trafficking Victims

The first time I walked into a Children’s Advocacy Center, I was a teenager dealing with the aftermath of years of sexual abuse. The CAC helped my family and I… Continue Reading

Reaching Children Through Their Parents

It’s no great surprise that much of our work in advocating for the well-being of children focuses on, well, the children—how to interact with them, how to help them manage… Continue Reading