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).
RCAC Acronym & Terminology List
This list, created by the RCACs, helps professionals and stakeholders quickly understand and navigate some of the key elements of the field.
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 Chart
This chart, 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.