Since the establishment of the first Child Advocacy Center (CAC) in 1985, coordinating
intervention of prosecution, child protection, and medical and mental health services to …

The Child Advocacy Center (CAC) model has been presented as the solution to many of the
problems inherent in responses by authorities to child sexual abuse. The lack of referral to …

This study compares the Children's Advocacy Center (CAC) model with more traditional
child protection services on several important outcomes such as substantiation of abuse …

Objective: Child Advocacy Centers (CACs) are designed to improve the community
collaborative response to child sexual abuse and the criminal justice processing of child …

Child protective service (CPS) and child abuse law enforcement (LE) investigators have
been required by the majority of states to work together when investigating criminal cases of …

Child maltreatment is a serious and prevalent problem in the United States. Children's
Advocacy Centers (CACs) were established in 1985 to better respond to cases of child …

Abstract Children's Advocacy Centers (CACs) play an increasingly significant role in the
response to child sexual abuse and other child maltreatment in the United States. First …

In this issue of the Journal are three long-awaited articles on the effectiveness of Children's
Advocacy Centers. Our commentary begins with a summary of the etiology of CACs and is …

BACKGROUND CACs are widely used in the United States. They were first developed in the
1980s to provide a coordinated approach to addressing the needs of children implicated in …

Abstract Child Advocacy Centers (CAC) emphasize developing effective cross-agency
collaborations between workers involved in serious abuse investigations to foster …