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 nearly 70,000 survey responses we collected in 2017 from caregivers and partners for this 2018 report. NCA’s Outcome Measurement… Continue Reading
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
Children’s Advocacy Centers offer high-quality care to help children heal from the trauma of abuse. Below you can find out more about the work done by NCA’s Member CACs last year: the total number of children served, the types of abuse those children experienced, client demographics, the types of services CACs provided, and more. You… Continue Reading
In some ways, legislative advocacy is like toilet paper: You don’t really think about it until it’s absolutely necessary. You usually forget to include it in your budget, it feels a little funny to talk about in public, and, frankly, you can never have enough of it. This wasn’t how I always felt. When I… Continue Reading
The use of tele-health services—providing therapy over a computer—is changing the landscape of mental health and providing more opportunities to disseminate evidence-based treatments to underserved communities. CAC professionals in South Carolina or any state with a large number of rural counties know the many barriers faced by children and families trying to access mental health… Continue Reading
Animals are such agreeable friends―they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.―George Eliot Throughout history, humans have relied on canines to assist in many tasks. Herding, guarding, scent work, and companionship are all duties that dogs have accepted and excelled at. I believe passionately in the human-animal bond, having witnessed firsthand the comfort that animals… Continue Reading
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
An NCA Policy Brief Print This Brief State statutes that clearly define Children’s Advocacy Centers and their role in the response to allegations of criminal child abuse greatly enhance the ability for the model to develop services, expand coverage and pursue additional resources, particularly state funding. Chapters and CACs in states without so-called defining legislation… Continue Reading
An NCA Policy Brief Print This Brief Diverse funding is essential to the long-term sustainability of the CAC movement, including state funding support. States should have an interest in adequately funding CACs. Here’s how CACs can build their knowledge of state funding and make the case to legislators. CAC Funding by Category The 3 Types… Continue Reading