We provide a child friendly setting to coordinate services that expedite the investigation and prosecution of child abuse cases while ensuring the victims receive effective, immediate and sensitive support.

Our primary function is to advocate and intervene on behalf of abused children.

A Children's Advocacy Center is a comprehensive, child-focused program based in a facility that allows law enforcement, child protection professionals, prosecutors, and the mental health and medical communities to work together when intervening in child abuse cases.  CACs are designed by communities to meet their own needs, so there are as many types of facilities in which CACs exists as there are different kinds of communities.  The main goal of all CACs is to make sure that children are not further victimized by systems designed to protect them.  We can accomplish this by working together as a multidisciplinary team and interviewing children with trained forensic interviewers in a manner that is legally sound, following nationally accepted "best practices", and minimizing duplicative and unnecessary interviews.

Locations

We have Centers conveniently located in each of Delaware's three counties:

New Castle County              Kent County                         Sussex County