Evidence-Based Mental Health Treatments for Child Abuse Victims
This guide, created by NCA and NRCAC in 2018, provides an overview of evidence-based mental health treatments for child abuse victims for brokers and multidisciplinary teams.
Helping Your Child Heal from Abuse
This guide, created by NCA and NRCAC in 2018, offers support for parents and caregivers dealing with child abuse, emphasizing the pivotal role they play in their child’s healing process and explaining how a CAC and MDT can provide assistance in keeping the child safe and facilitating their recovery.
Intersection of Intimate Partner Violence and Child Abuse
This guide, created by NRCAC in 2022, provides an overview and resources on the intersection of intimate partner violence (IPV) and child abuse.
NRCAC Self Care Checklist
This infographic, created by NRCAC in 2020, offers a variety of self-care ideas including physical, psychological, emotional, professional, and personal, while also providing space for you to write your own ideas.
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.
Mental Health Linkage Agreement
This sample linkage agreement created by the RCACs in 2022 is meant to serve as a resource for CACs when providing Mental Health Referral, Assessment and Treatment. Please note this is intended as a SAMPLE and should be carefully reviewed by the CAC Board of Directors or other governing entity so that it accurately reflects YOUR partnership with community agencies.
Ensuring Well Being of Children: A Comprehensive Approach to Trauma-Informed Care for CACs
This guide, created by NCA and NRCAC in 2018, offers support for CACs to help identify children in need of treatment and make referrals to evidence-based treatments that are proven to reduce trauma symptoms.