The following report summarizes the activities of the Indiana Chapter in 2020 and 2021. While the Chapter’s annual report is typically reflective of one year, this is a combined report due in part to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Five Indiana CACs are being formally re-accredited by the National Children’s Alliance for their service to children and families.
Eight Indiana child advocacy centers are either moving soon, expanding, or have recently moved operations to a new location.
It was pushing eleven o’clock at night and despite the mental strain on everyone, Mallory Stevenson and the rest of the team at the Randolph County CAC knew everyone did something right.
And in that brief moment, kids staring at the aquarium’s bubbling water and fluorescent plants giggle about fish eating their peas and forget about why they’re there and the traumatic events that possibly unfolded in their young lives.
Three child advocacy centers in central Indiana have received funds for multiple new services, programs, and infrastructure.
Former 5th Street School is being repurposed by SWICACC to serve Dubois and six surrounding counties On a cloudy morning last week, Tammy Lampert drove up to the front of the former 5th Street Elementary School to find a member of the community standing out front, she asked if her group could help with the … Read more
Child Advocacy Centers often get their name from a local child or advocate. But McKenzie’s Hope is unique in combining the names of two children who were each murdered within about a year of each other.
In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, child advocates got worried. As the shutdown and shelter-in-place orders came quickly across the country, advocates didn’t know how children and live-in partners suffering from abuse were going to fare.
Heidi Jennings has received a well-deserved award for her work with numerous high-profile cases in Boone County.