Southern Regional Children's Advocacy Center

This program furthers the Department's mission by providing grants and cooperative agreements for training and technical assistance to organizations that OJJDP designates.

The Southern Regional Children's Advocacy Center (SRCAC) will provide training and technical assistance to develop and strengthen Children's Advocacy Centers (CACs) and Multidisciplinary Child Abuse Teams (MDTs) in the states that comprise the Southern region. The core components of this project include national, regional and state conferences; information dissemination; on-site technical assistance and team training; multidisciplinary and discipline specific training; and use of innovative technologies; mentoring of CAC programs. The National Children’s Advocacy Center (NCAC) has more than 30 years of experience providing regional or national training and technical assistance to MDTs, CACs and state chapters of CACs. The purpose of the SRCAC project is to provide a full complement of training, technical assistance and information services for developing and established MDTs, local CACs, and state chapter organizations of CACs. The project will focus on innovative development, delivery, and evaluation of services and working collaboratively with other Victims of Child Abuse Act funded programs. The goals of this project are to provide states and communities access to quality training and technical assistance in assessing community readiness and in developing and strengthening the multidisciplinary approach to the investigation and prosecution of child abuse cases and in providing evidence based treatment for child abuse victims, including male and female sex trafficking victims; to provide MDTS, CACs, and state chapter organizations of CACs timely, relevant and evidence-based publications and resources; and to coordinate and combine resources available through the Victims of Child Abuse programs for training, technical assistance and publications regarding a multidisciplinary approach to addressing child abuse to benefit multidisciplinary teams and CAC staff. CA/NCF

This program furthers the Department's mission by providing grants and cooperative agreements for training and technical assistance to organizations that OJJDP designates.

The National Children's Advocacy Center (NCAC) will continue to utilize the Victims of Child Abuse (VOCA) Act funding to operate the Southern Regional Children's Advocacy Center (SRCAC). The NCAC has more than 30 years of experience providing regional or national training and technical assistance to Children's Advocacy Centers (CACs), Multidisciplinary Child Abuse Teams (MDTs) and state chapters of CACs.

The purpose of the SRCAC project is to provide a full complement of training, technical assistance and information services to developing and established MDTs, local CACs, and state chapter organizations of CACs located within the states that comprise the southern region. The project will focus on innovative development, delivery, and evaluation of services and working collaboratively with other Victims of Child Abuse Act funded programs. The goals of this project are to provide states and communities access to quality training and technical assistance in assessing community readiness and in developing and strengthening the multidisciplinary approach to the investigation and prosecution of child abuse cases and in providing evidence-based treatment for child abuse victims, including male and female sex trafficking victims; and to provide MDTs, CACs, and state chapter organizations of CACs timely, relevant and evidence-based publications and resources. CA/NCF