As the primary response to child abuse in the United States, CACs are well-positioned to deliver healing to kids nationwide, and currently provide some 200,000 children each year with mental health services. Here are some highlights of our accomplishments over the past 10 years, achieved in partnership with CACs, State Chapters, Regional CACs, and national stakeholders.
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Even in the past two years, CACs have made dramatic strides in offering evidence-based mental health treatments and assessments. But these strides have been the effect of longer-term improvement trends at CACs.
Through the hard work of CAC leaders in partnership with NCA, not only has the system change been transformative for the mental health services offered in CACs, but more importantly, it has been transformative for children and their healing.
Kids at CACs usually need evidence-based treatments. And, to plan the right treatment and make sure it’s working for children and their caregivers, CACs need to use evidence-based assessments (EBAs). Since 2015, NCA has provided EBA training to 112 clinicians from CACs in 10 states and expanded services to many more.
Through these projects, clinicians administered assessments to nearly 1,000 children and their caregivers—a number that will continue to increase as those clinicians see more clients every year.
Child abuse and other forms of trauma can have lifelong effects on children, families, and communities.
Yet the evidence-based treatments CACs provide have been designed and tested for treatment of child trauma-related symptoms. It’s through the use of those proven techniques that CACs are making a difference in kids’ lives—and helping their caregivers, too.
Read the report now and learn your part in this important work.