The latest news from INCACs, including training opportunities, events, and updates from across Indiana Child Advocacy Centers.
The 6 latest internet safety tips for parents and kids
Now, cybersecurity is expanding beyond into social engineering, ad tracking, and more. These internet safety tips can help you keep your online activities safe.
8 Indiana CACs on the move as demand for services changes across Indiana
Eight Indiana child advocacy centers are either moving soon, expanding, or have recently moved operations to a new location.
Comfort House prevention program finds success despite common COVID and e-learning pitfalls
Prevention programming from Comfort House moved online during the pandemic, and the team found surprising benefits.
More on Indiana’s Mandated Reporter Law
Indiana’s Mandated Reporter law goes beyond what many other states do. Hoosiers should know what their legal obligation to children is.
Anyone issuing a report, regardless of age or whether it’s to law enforcement or the Child Abuse Hotline, is shielded from litigation, prosecution, or any other kind of risk if a claim is incorrect, if the report is made in good faith. “As long as you’ve made a good faith report, we must have faith in the system that it will be considered and investigated appropriately.”
Indiana doesn’t exempt anyone from this requirement. Doctors, clergy, and attorneys are all required to report suspected abuse, regardless of other privacy privileges they may have.
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Legislation and Policy
Updated CAC accreditation standards include a focus on safety, mental health, and equity
These are part of a five-year revision and update cycle, updating the 2017 standards with clarifications designed to improve CAC governance, prevention education, access, and more. The results are a rigorous series of measures that will impact teams working at and families visiting CACs.
Indiana’s mandated reporting law means everyone, even you, has a duty to children
Indiana’s Mandated Reporter law goes beyond what many other states do. Hoosiers should know what their legal obligation to children is.
Census data helping Indiana CACs meet demands for the next generation
Census data from 2020 is likely to reshape at least some parts of Indiana’s response to child abuse and maltreatment. Fourteen of Indiana’s fifteen smallest counties by population saw a continued decline in population over the last decade.
Law Enforcement
Indiana’s mandated reporting law means everyone, even you, has a duty to children
Indiana’s Mandated Reporter law goes beyond what many other states do. Hoosiers should know what their legal obligation to children is.
Legal precedent set for using forensic interviews as court testimony for the first time in Indiana
An Indiana Court of Appeals panel unanimously agrees forensic interviews can be used as testimony and not violate a defendant’s Sixth Amendment rights.
Six new tips and policies for families to know as Hoosier children return to school
Over 16,000 school buses are back on the streets of Indiana carrying over 1 million young Hoosiers back and forth to school. A variety of bills are in place this school year that lawmakers hope will improve the safety of children’s physical and mental health.
Training and Team Building
Comfort House prevention program finds success despite common COVID and e-learning pitfalls
Prevention programming from Comfort House moved online during the pandemic, and the team found surprising benefits.
Marion County CAC settling in with “one of the best teams we’ve ever had”
“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.”
New Delaware Co. CAC Coordinator recalls series of firsts over the last six months
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.
News and Press Releases
8 Indiana CACs on the move as demand for services changes across Indiana
Eight Indiana child advocacy centers are either moving soon, expanding, or have recently moved operations to a new location.
Randolph County CAC exceeds estimates by double, closes thirty-year gap in practice
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.
In the land of lakes, the fish taught Safe Harbor CAC an important lesson
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.