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Behavioral and mental health - includes the Chicago Child Trauma Center in Chicago and the La Rabida Children's Advocacy Center (CAC) in Park Forest. Part of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. Brain injury - includes both inpatient acute care and long-term outpatient services through the Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) clinic.
Child advocacy centers (CAC) provide a child-friendly, safe and neutral location in which law enforcement and Child Protective Services investigators may conduct and observe forensic interviews with children who are alleged victims of crimes, and where the child and non-offending family members receive support, crisis intervention and referrals for mental health and medical treatment.
Erin’s Law has now gone international with a judge in Kerala India requiring Erin’s Law in the 2023-2024 school year. Merryn is a national spokesperson for the National Children's Alliance, becoming the first survivor of child sexual abuse that went through a Children's Advocacy Center to speak on national television about her experience. [1]
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Go to https://childadvocacyportage.org for more information about the Children’s Advocacy Center of Portage County. The CAC can also be reached at 330-297-8838. To report child, or elder, abuse ...
In 2022 alone, the CAC served more than 350 children, provided more than 2,000 counseling and therapy sessions and provided prevention education and training for nearly 1,000 adults and 17,000 ...
The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) is the code department [2] [3] of the Illinois state government responsible for child protective services. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] As of June 2019 [update] , Marc Smith is the acting Director of Children and Family Services.
The Child Advocacy Center Model (CAC) was first set up in the US in 1985. The aim of the center was to prevent retraumatisation by providing a child-friendly, safe and neutral environment for forensic interviews, medical examination and treatment.