Building a Better Case Review Together Guidelines
This guide, created by NRCAC in 2023, is intended to help CACs and MDTs evaluate, expand, and enhance their case review process.
Minimal Facts Guidelines
This guide, created by NRCAC in 2020, assists first responders in obtaining minimal facts during initial responses to abuse allegations, with the aim of reducing trauma to child victims and avoiding redundant interviews.
Providing Training to CACs Readiness Guide for State Chapters
This guide, created by SRCAC in 2022, is designed for those Chapter organizations who may be considering developing and delivering training curriculums to their CACs.
Listen and Learn: A Process for Initiating Collaboration Between Tribal Communities and Children’s Advocacy Centers
For CACs who are interested in building relationships with tribal communities in their areas, this guide, created by SRCAC in 2019, will help you gain a better understanding of the “Listen and Learn” concept, how to initiate contact with tribal leaders with the help of your state Chapter, your Regional CAC, and NACA (Native American Children’s Alliance); and how to plan and conduct a successful Listen and Learn.
Considerations for the MDT/CAC Approach to Recantation
This research to practice fact sheet, created by SRCAC in 2020, conveys the considerations for the MDT/CAC approach to recantation.
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.
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.
Psychological First Aid Guide for Children’s Advocacy Center Supervisors
This manual, created by SRCAC in 2016, will empower organizations to proactively prepare for and effectively manage critical incidents, safeguarding their credibility and integrity in the face of unexpected challenges.
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.