Agency Statistics

Children’s Advocacy Center Service Statistics:  The Children's Advocacy Center impacts the lives of over 4000 families who are experiencing the trauma of abuse an family violence annually through our programs, which are staffed with highly qualified and specifically trained personnel.  Data indicates that children who complete the treatment protocol have less than a 1% recurrence of abuse in their home in the 12-months following treatment. The number of clients served by each program may represent either a family or an individual based on the department’s duties and contractual reporting requirements. This is clarified in the narrative. The figures include victims or clients who opened in a previous month and continue to receive services as well as newly opened cases. At year end, calculations separating the number of service units provided and number of individual/families who received services are made for contract reporting purposes.

Intervention Programs

Family and Child Trauma Treatment Services

Approximately 700 children and their families receive intensive abuse and/or family violence and trauma therapy services from FACTTS. The majority of these children fall between 7 and 12 years of age.  Approximately 48% of the time, the abuser is a parent. Approximately 50% of the time, the offender is another family member or known person to the family.  On average, only 2% of the time is the alleged abuser a stranger to the child.

Comprehensive Behavioral Health Assessments

Approximately 216 children receive comprehensive assessments to assist in determining dependency actions from the Comprehensive Behavioral Health Assessment Team.

 Child Protection Team

Approximately 950 children per year receive intensive family violence or child abuse intervention services, to include forensic medical exams, from the Child Protection Team

Sexual Assault Response Team

Approximately 290 sexual assault victims per year receive forensic medical exams from SART.  An additional average of 70 victims per year undergo a medical screening as they do not wish to have a forensic medical exam following their attack.  Approximately 360 victims per year receive specialized trauma recovery counseling from SART.

Prevention Programs

Early Steps Program

Early Steps serves approximately 1500 children and their families per year, averaging 1000 units of therapeutic services per month.

Specialized Trauma & Offender Prevention

STOP serves an average of 500 families per year with intensive prevention group and individual counseling, and well over 1000 children and families are served annually through their school-based psycho-education program.

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