Kids Talk CAC in Anderson, Indiana, is celebrating 10 years of service in 2024. The team reflects on the remarkable stability and work they’ve done to change their community.
Go behind-the-scenes in the lead-up to the internal accreditation and site-review process at two Indiana CACs, one on-site and one held virtually.
“I knew I wanted to be a prosecutor, but never dreamed I would get into the child abuse and sex crimes,” he says. “I always thought it’d be a drug or gang prosecutor. But child sex abuse cases meshed with what I wanted to do.”
Forensic interviewers begin their training by observing, watching, dissecting, and questioning recorded forensic interviews. But have no ability to train with manikins. Instead, they start by interviewing live, adult volunteers.
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.
Sylvia’s CAC in Boone County is now fully accredited by the National Children’s Alliance. The CAC learned of their new status on November 1, 2021.
Allen County’s local CAC discovered how important cultural understanding is to great investigations. Now they’re an exemplar for what to do.
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.
Lesley’s work with children in her role as Heartford House’s Victim Advocate was noted as “exemplary”.
Heartford House has grown up in the last two decades. They started almost by surprise, have made hard funding choices with DCS, and now they’re merging with nearby Quinton’s House.