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Teaming Against Trauma
Teaming Against Trauma is brought to you by Kay Phillips Child Advocacy Center (KPCAC). Together, we uncover how child advocacy professionals team up to fight against trauma and it's effect on children. We hope these conversations will expand your understanding of Child Advocacy Centers as well as inspire you to take actions we all can better understand trauma and prevent child abuse. If you have any questions about something we discuss or input on what you would like to hear more of, please email banderson@kayphillipscac.org.
Teaming Against Trauma
What is a CAC with Lyndsey Smith
Kicking off our first ever episode- Brooke interviews DCAC's Clinical Support Director, Lyndsey Smith, to lay the foundation of "What is a CAC?" Since CAC's started around the late 80s, the CAC Model is still relatively new to the world. Understanding the basics of the CAC Model will set us up to take a deeper dive into these specific areas later on. With many moving parts, the CAC plays a critical role in ensuring that children disclosing abuse are not further victimized by the intervention systems designed to protect them. Working with a Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) of professionals CACs offer child-focused, facility-based programs with representatives from many disciplines working together to effectively investigate, prosecute, and treat child abuse. On this episode, Brooke and Lyndsey share about why the CAC Model originated, how works in practice, and why it's been so successful around the country.
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