News and Announcements

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.  Click here to read more.

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 2010:

Ronald McDonald House Charities - Allowed us to further develop the outdoor therapeutic area for children.

 NCA (National Children's Alliance) - assists with salary on second full-time therapist

 United Way of Johnson County - Provides funding that allows us to deliver direct services to child victims that come through the center.

 CACTX (Children's Advocacy Centers of Texas) - Provides funding to assist with salaries, training and some general operating expenses.

 VOCA (Victims of Crime Act) - Used for therapeutic outreach project so we can provide counseling to child victims and their non-offending family members.

Alton & Fay Talbert Memorial Fund (Texas Methodist Foundation) - assistance with therapeutic supplies for children and daily operations.

Rees Jones - Allowed to secure a Universal Forensic Extraction Device for detectives working child abuse cases so they can immediately download cell phone information rather than sending phones out to processed which takes weeks.

SWALM Grant (managed by CACTX - - Allowed us to provide training for our multi-disciplinary team members from the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre professionals.  Their agency is located in London, England.  They are one of two agencies in the world that treat serial child offenders and sexual murderers.  Their Behavioral Analysis Unit that works so hard to catch these offenders allowed Commander Graham Hill and Dr. Joe Sullivan, Forensic Psychologist, to put on the training for our team members.