Telemental Health Network Readiness and Planning Guide for Chapters
This guide by WRCAC provides a framework for establishing statewide telemental health networks for Children’s Advocacy Centers.
Trauma-Informed Care and Practice in a CAC Setting
The Western Regional Children’s Advocacy Center (WRCAC) offers webinars aimed at enhancing the skills of professionals working in Children’s Advocacy Centers (CACs).
Building Trauma-Informed Children’s Advocacy Centers: Resource Guide
This guide by WRCAC provides a comprehensive directory of resources to help Children’s Advocacy Centers (CACs) develop trauma-informed responses.
Tele-Mental Health Webinars
Learn about tele-mental health options for delivering trauma-informed, evidence-based mental health services. This five-part webinar series is presented in 2019 by the WRCAC Rural Mental Health project in partnership with MRCAC and the NCAC.
Expanding In-Person Mental Health Services Within a Children’s Advocacy Center as the Pandemic Recedes
This issue brief, created by WRCAC in 2021, carefully examines how to navigate the myriad of issues affecting decision-making regarding the return to more in-person treatment and recommends items for CACs to consider when providing in-person mental health care as part of their service continuum.
Task Sharing in a Children’s Advocacy Center: The Role of Victim Advocates in Meeting the Mental Health Needs of Children & Families
This issue brief, created by WRCAC in 2021, examines task sharing in the CAC context and promotes the active collaboration between the CAC victim advocate and the child’s therapist as a task sharing team, especially in rural areas where the therapist may provide services remotely through tele-mental health.
WRCAC Telemental Health Resource Center
This website hub, created by WRCAC in 2019 and updated in 2024, serves to educate and inform the CAC community about Telemental Health as an option, as it is still not widely employed among CACs. The updated TMHRC reflects a focus on supporting Chapters, CAC Directors, Mental Health and Advocacy staff in implementing TMH services.
Facility Dogs at Children’s Advocacy Centers and in Legal Settings: Best Practices
This manual, created by WRCAC and Court House Dogs Foundation in 2017, provides the framework for implementing a facility dog program.