Georgia Center for Child Advocacy, Inc.
Building a Better World, One Child at a Time
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
According to National statistics, 1 in 10 children will be sexually abused before age 18. Even more alarming is the fact that less than 10% of these children will ever tell a sole. Without proper treatment, these problems can lead to far more detrimental behaviors during adolescence and adulthood, which become a problem for the entire community. Children who experience child abuse and neglect are 59% more likely to be arrested as a juvenile, 28% more likely to be arrested as an adult, and 30% more likely to commit violent crime. These facts and statistics point to the importance of early intervention and treatment to minimize both the immediate trauma and the long-term negative impact on a child victim’s healthy emotional development as well as the negative impact on their community. Children are the most vulnerable population, and giving those that have been affected by abuse hope for a normal childhood is something that every child deserves.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Intervention/Victim Advocacy/Treatment
Our services are coordinated with law enforcement and DFCS to address issues of physical or sexual abuse of children as well as providing services to children who may have witnessed violence. These agencies may request a forensic interview be conducted at the Georgia Center for Child Advocacy.
Our interviewers are all highly trained and conduct interviews that are legally sound and of a fact finding nature. Both before and after the interview, staff will meet with the caretaker or guardian who has brought the child to the center.
We offer follow up victim advocacy services to the child and family, and remain involved for as long as necessary.
At the Center we offer therapy that is specialized for children who have experienced some type of trauma. This type of therapy is called Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT).
This treatment assists the caregivers and children to recognize problems resulting from the earlier trauma; to learn skills for managing troubling thoughts, feelings and behaviors; to learn relaxation skills; and to learn ways to cope with difficult memories.
Child Sexual Abuse Prevention
Georgia’s Prevention Initiative starts with the premise that adults are responsible for the safety of children. But many adults feel unable to protect children from sexual abuse because they do not know enough about the problem or the steps they can take to reduce the risk.
We offer the Stewards of Children training curriculum throughout Georgia. This training is a revolutionary sexual abuse prevention training program developed by a Charleston, SC based nonprofit, Darkness to Light (D2L)(http://www.d2l.org/) and is the only adult-focused, evidence-based curriculum proven to increase knowledge and attitudes about child sexual abuse and to change behaviors promoting protective factors.
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Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
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What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
We champion the needs of sexually and severely physically abused children through prevention, intervention, therapy and collaboration. The children we serve have experienced various forms of abuse such as sexual abuse or assault, physical abuse, and exploitation. We see children who witness extreme violence and homicide, and also ones who are victims of trafficking and child pornography. Ultimately, our goal is to respond as immediately as possible to the needs of child victims to reduce the impact of their trauma, and provide them with the tools to succeed beyond our walls. By offering wraparound services, we are building a better world, one child at a time.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
As a child advocacy center, we serve as an interagency coordinated response center to combat the long-lasting effects of child trauma. Our approach enables the kids we serve of all ages to find safety, feel protected, and move forward to lead a healthy childhood. We are the only agency conducting forensic interviews for child victims in DeKalb county and only one of two doing so in Fulton. A forensic interview gives the child an opportunity to share their account with a trained professional in a safe environment, is video-recorded, and is later used during prosecution. We partner with GBI to educate law enforcement officers how to effectively intervene with concerns of child sex trafficking.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
We strengthened our response to child pornography & trafficking victims by not only having our staff trained, but also by sharing our knowledge & conducting targeted trainings to both adults & youth across our state. Our Envision Project conducts four distinct workshops to assist youth survivors of child sex trafficking; these address employment, personal development, independent living, and educational support. These programs help remove barriers so that survivors move forward, are equipped with skills & resources to thrive, and dream big. We conduct Love 146's Not a #Number directly to youth ages 12-18 designed to teach them how to project themselves from trafficking and exploitation. We have reached over 135,000 adults trained on child sexual abuse prevention 148 out of the 159 Georgia counties, and just began youth prevention education in schools this year. Our goal is to reach all Georgia counties and train 5% of every county population.
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Georgia Center for Child Advocacy, Inc.
Board of directorsas of 03/11/2022
Scott Bomar
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