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BABY
MOSES PROJECT:
The Board of Directors of the Children's Advocacy Center accepted the
challenge to coordinate the Safe Baby Site project for Johnson County.
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Counseling Room Growing:
The
Children’s Advocacy Center was able to bring a second counselor on
staff recently due to an increase in our Victim’s of Crime Acts
Therapeutic Outreach Grant. The Center is now able to assist more
victims with individual, group, family and play therapy. One of our
counselors is also able to provide EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization
and Reprocessing). This approach is being used with a large number of
our military that are suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Many of our child victims also suffer from PTSD due to the trauma that
surrounds their victimization. We are seeing that those children that
suffer from PTSD that are provided this type of therapy are
progressing at a much more rapid rate than those children that we have
counseled previously with PTSD that were not provided this type of
therapy. We are committed to meeting the needs of the child victims
we serve and will continue to provide training for all staff that will
help keep us prepared to offer the resources that families need the
most.
The Children's Advocacy
Center is happy to announce that the following grants have been
secured for 2007:
The Ronald McDonald House Charities has awarded a grant in
the amount of $6,250 to replace work stations and furniture in the
children's play areas of the Centers.
The National Children's Alliance awarded a $10,000 grant to
help cover rent costs for the Center as well as providing some special
program funding.
Johnson County United Way has awarded a $20,000 grant to go
towards meeting the 2007 budget costs.
Children's
Advocacy Center's of Texas has awarded a funding contract
to the Center in the amount of $42,025 for Direct Services for
children, training, and personnel.
The Attorney General's Criminal Justice Division of the
Governor's Office has awarded a $50,831 Victims of Crime Act Grant to
help provide therapeutic services for child victims.
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