Grayson County Childrens Advocacy Center

The GCCAC provides a collaboration of services for the purpose of prevention, intervention, investigation, prosecution, and treatment of child abuse. Our short term goal is to ensure every child who experiences abuse receives every service he or she needs to heal. From programs focused on the prevention of future abuse to specialized mental healthcare services, GCCAC works to ensure that every child who experiences the horrors of abuse is able to find help, hope, and healing. Our long term goal is to prevent, ultimately eliminating, child abuse in Grayson County.

As Grayson County's Children's Advocacy Center, we collaborates with 13 local law enforcement agencies, Child Protective Services, local hospitals, and the Grayson County Criminal District Attorney's Office. As a result of this collaboration, investigations are more cohesive, cases are stronger for prosecution, and children and their protective caregivers are more likely to benefit from available healing services.

We also offer community education to both children and adults. These programs include personal safety and internet safety, recognizing the signs and symptoms of abuse and abuse prevention. We believe that child abuse is preventable. Empowering adults and children can change behaviors that better protect children.

We are dedicated to maintaining the quality of care for our community's most vulnerable children. Wrap around care for these families is something we take pride in. Well established best practice standards are our guiding principals for how we serve this population. As awareness of the problem grows, the need for service providers grows as well. Recently we've grown in staff size to meet those needs and will continue to assess the needs of our community and base future growth upon those assessments. The support of the community enables us to further our mission and serve even more children that need us.

Since 2004, the CAC has grown and adapted to meet the needs of our community. In our 16 years we have grown from 2 staff members to a team of 12 people dedicated to serving victims of child abuse. Grayson County is currently experiencing a significant population increase. From Fiscal Year 2017- Fiscal Year 2019 the CAC experienced a 78.71% increase in the number of forensic interviews provided. We are proud that we have been able to accommodate this growth in our forensic interview program and in our other wrap around services. Despite the decrease in reports due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, we are on path to continue growing in FY 2020. Child abuse doesn't stop no matter what is going on in the world. Neither do we. We will continue to provide quality services to every child victim in need!