Escambia County Regional Child Advocacy Center

Children are interviewed in a child friendly, safe placed by a trained forensic interview to lessen the trauma to the child. Information & referral services are made for expert medical & mental health treatment. Several chilren victims of sexual & physical abuse were provided services including children who received forensic interviews.

Child victims & non-offending family members, foster parents, & relatives are provided assistance from initial contact throughout life of case including prosecution with legal rights responsiblities, support & court preparation. Staff accompanies victims & families to court, doctors, if needed.

Community education & community awareness programs presented to community & schools throughout year for child abuse prevention & community awareness. Law enforcement & social workers trained in the latest techniques in the investigation of child abuse & neglect, supplies, travel within region, & to conferences provded to md team members.