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The Midwest Regional Children's Advocacy Center's (CACs) mission is to improve the community response to child abuse through strategic leadership, collaboration, and capacity building. Midwest Regional CACs role is to build capacity by elevating the expertise of child abuse professionals and improving the sustainability of multidisciplinary teams, CACs, and state chapters. Midwest Regional CAC works collaboratively with the other regional CACs, the National Children's Alliance, and other national and state partners to ensure nonduplicative service delivery.
Provider Organization
Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota Award Details
Services
Midwest Regional CAC is committed to providing affordable, accessible, cost-effective training methods for child abuse professionals including but not limited to law enforcement, child protective services, prosecutor’s offices, medical professionals, mental health providers, victim advocates, forensic interviewers, and program administrators.
Audience
Children’s Advocacy Centers
Child Protection and Advocacy Professionals
Child Welfare Personnel
Court Personnel
Juvenile Justice Specialists
Law Enforcement
Mental Health Professionals
Medical Providers
Multidisciplinary Teams
Nonprofit Organizations
Organizations
Prosecutors
School Personnel
Social Services
State Advisory Groups
State Chapter Organizations
Substance Abuse Professionals
Tribal Community
Youth Advocates
Youth Services Professionals
Eligibility
Child abuse professionals including, medical, law enforcement, child welfare, prosecution, mental health, victim advocates, and forensic interviewers
Continuing education and training: A variety of courses, webinars, and networking opportunities are offered free of charge to child abuse professionals across the nation. https://www.mrcac.org
Quality improvement: Web-based, HIPAA-compliant monthly peer review and expert review for medical providers and forensic interviewers across the country. https://www.mrcac.org/peer-review
Excellence in treatment and healing: Foundational and ongoing training for medical providers including online education, hands-on clinical preceptorship, and continuous quality improvement. https://www.mrcac.org/medical-academy.
Chapter development: Collaboration and customized TA for improving the quality of the multidisciplinary response to child abuse and increasing access to CACs.
Jordan Benning, M.Ed.
Project Director [email protected]
952–992–5257
Ensuring Public Safety
Preventing Child Abuse, Neglect, and Victimization
