Child Protection Center, Inc.

The Child Protection Center provides crisis intervention, ongoing support and education to caregivers of children who have been abused. These services help caregivers navigate the child protection, law enforcement and court systems.  The CPC Family Advocates provide referrals for specialized medical and mental health services and link them with any additional community resources that are needed such as domestic violence shelters, substance abuse treatment programs, legal aid, parenting education classes, and food pantries.

The Child Protection Center conducts trainings for multidisciplinary partner agency staff at no cost to participants about the Child Protection Network (CPN) Protocol.  The CPN Protocol outlines each agency’s role and responsibilities in the investigation process and defines the protocol for referrals of children to the CPC.  This training also identifies the often subtle signs of child sexual abuse.  This is critical because untrained staff can miss key indicators because they do not know what they are looking for, or miss an opportunity to refer a child for a forensic interview.  The CPC also provides Stewards of Children, a nationally acclaimed training program for adults who work with children or who are in the community to help them identify victims of abuse and intercede on their behalf.

Traumatic experience have the power to impact the thoughts, emotions, and behavior of children and adults.  The Child and Family Traumatic Stress Intervention (CFTSI) is an early-intervention, short-term therapy that aims to reduce the traumatic stress symptoms causing a family the most distress and disruption to daily lukef. Over the course of 6-8 therapy sessions, the child and family therapist helps the child and caregiver learn to increase communication and understanding of the thoughts and feelings associated with traumatic events.  The therapist also works with the child and family to develop healthy strategies to manage those thoughts and feelings. The CFTSI program specifically provides the following services:between  6-8 therapy sessionseach session is one hour longone session with the caregiver and the therapist onlyone or two sessions with the child and the therapist onlyall other sessions are with both the child, their caregiver, and the therapistAfter the CFTSI therapy is complete, families can be referred for long-term therapy if needed.