Bridgehaven Children's Advocacy Center

Cause Area

  • Advocacy & Human Rights
  • Children & Youth
  • Community
  • Crisis Support

Location

PO Box 220PO Box 220Dayton, TX 77535 United States
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Mission Statement

To give hope and care to the children of Liberty and Chambers counties who are victims of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse and foster a working relationship with the government agencies of the two counties assigned to protect and defend victims. The physical and emotional well being of the young victims are the priority of Bridgehaven and the governmental agencies involved and a unified effort to sustain this program is supported by all involved.

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Bridgehaven Children's Advocacy Center is a nonprofit organization that was created to help minimize the trauma associated with child abuse investigations. Bridgehaven CAC is an organization that offers programs to help victims of child abuse and neglect. CAC (Children's Advocacy Center) program that has helped to change the way child abuse investigations are handled in Chambers and Liberty Counties in southeast Texas by working as part of a multidisciplinary team which includes law enforcement, prosecutors, child protective service workers, mental/medical professionals and volunteers. The purpose of Bridgehaven CAC is to coordinate the work of the multidisciplinary partnership and to ensure that child victims are not revictimized by the system designed to protect them. Bridgehaven CAC provides neutral, child-friendly, non-institutionalized environment in which each victim can feel safe telling his/her story and immediate services can be provided to both the child and their non-offending family members.

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