EAC Network Child Advocacy Center, NY
EAC Network will further the development of its Nationally Accredited EAC Suffolk County Child Advocacy Center (CAC) which is locally funded by the Suffolk County Department of Social Services, and home to the Suffolk County Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) for investigations of cases involving child physical and sexual abuse. EAC Network will improve prevention of child abuse and provide trauma-informed care to children/youth and their parents who have experienced child abuse and/or domestic violence.
The goals of the initiative are to (1) increase child, parent, and teacher knowledge about, prevention of, and reporting of child abuse and intimate partner violence; (2) improve children’s and parents’ ability to cope with the trauma they have experienced; and (3) improve the relationship between the child and the nonoffending caregiver. Through an MOU with The Retreat, 2 full time and 1 part time counselors will be funded to provide trauma-informed therapy and psychoeducation to children and parents who have experienced intimate partner violence. Over the funding period of two years, the counselors will provide 200 family sessions, 700 individual sessions with parents and 700 individual sessions with child.
