Our Mission: To promote, assist, and support the development, growth, and continuation of Children's Advocacy Centers in the state of Kentucky.

Responding to child sexual abuse is a complex process requiring the input and effort of a wide variety of professionals. Children’s Advocacy Centers (CAC) are places where community professionals gather together to work toward the best outcome possible to insure the child’s safety and well-being. Children’s Advocacy Centers in our Commonwealth provide a safe, child-friendly environment where the child and non-offending caregivers can find a full array of services including forensic interviewing, advocacy, mental health and medical services provided in a multidisciplinary team approach. The Kentucky Association of Children’s Advocacy Centers, Inc. was established to promote, assist and support the development, growth and continuation of Children’s Advocacy Centers in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. This coalition of fifteen designated regional centers serves a network of service providers who share expertise and resources that work to enhance the lives of children in all areas of Kentucky.

A Children’s Advocacy Center (CAC) is a child-focused facility where representatives from many disciplines – law enforcement, child protection, prosecution, mental health, medical and victim advocacy—work together, conducting joint forensic interviews, and making team decisions, about the investigations, treatment, management and prosecution of child abuse cases. CACs are designed to promote the well being of children while facilitating the most effective investigation and prosecution of child sexual abuse cases. CACs are community-based programs designed to meet the unique needs of a community, so no two CACs look exactly alike. Victims of child abuse require a multifaceted community response and no single agency, individual or discipline has the necessary knowledge, skills or resources, to serve the needs of all children and their families. The combined wisdom and knowledge of professionals from different disciplines will result in a more complete understanding of case issues and the most effective, child- and family-focused system response.
In addition to focusing on the best interest of children, CACs also provide an opportunity to give support to professionals who dedicate themselves to the protection of children including social workers, advocates, law enforcement officers and prosecutors. CACs are defined in the child protection act of Kentucky law (KRS 620.020).

The Kentucky Association of Children’s Advocacy Centers, Inc.,(KACAC) is the coalition of the 15 designated regional children’s advocacy centers throughout the Commonwealth of Kentucky. KACAC serves as a network of service providers who share expertise, resources, and support. The mission of KACAC is to promote, assist, and support the development, growth, and continuation of Children’s Advocacy Centers in Kentucky.
The Children’s Advocacy Centers (CACs) which comprise KACAC provide direct services to child victims of sexual abuse, offering a full array of services to promote healing and recovery. Additionally, the CACs incorporate a multidisciplinary approach within their communities to ensure a comprehensive approach to sexual abuse. KACAC does not provide direct services, but works to support the efforts of the individual CACs and their multidisciplinary teams at a statewide level.

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