Our Mission

Heart to Heart Child Advocacy Center is dedicated to effectively and compassionately serving children who are victims of abuse, and to strengthening our community's response to child abuse.Our mission is to provide advocacy services and enhance safety for child abuse victims and their families by facilitating a collaborative, multidisciplinary approach to prevention, investigation, prosecution and treatment of child abuse. This includes providing comprehensive, coordinated and compassionate services to victims of child abuse and their non-offending caregivers.

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Our Goals

Heart to Heart CAC collaborates with community partners to provide quality

resources to children of abuse and their non-offending family members:

• A comprehensive multidisciplinary response to child abuse that meets the needs of child victims and their families.
• A safe, friendly agency that puts the needs of the child first.
• Interviews by professionally trained forensic interviewers, preventing further trauma to children by reducing the need to repeat the account of abuse.
• Ongoing advocacy, support, court preparation and accompaniment as needed.
• Communication and coordination among  community  professionals  and  agencies involved in child protection.
• Coordination and tracking of investigative and prosecutorial efforts.
• Referrals to needed services such as medical intervention and behavioral health services that help children and families heal.

Our Vision

‍Children in Harvey, Marion and McPherson counties shall have a safe and neutral place to talk about circumstances in their life with specially trained forensic interviewers, and have Family Advocates and a multidisciplinary team to make decisions in their best interest. Promote all agencies to harmoniously work together to ensure children of abuse are not victimized again by the system that protects them.

Our Promise

With support from our community partners, funders and volunteers, we will always be here for the children and families who need us most.

Heart to Heart CAC is an accredited member of the National Children's Alliance and Child Advocacy Centers of Kansas.

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