Causes: Child Abuse Prevention, Crime & Law, Domestic Violence

Mission: To lessen the trauma to abused children by using a multidisciplinary approach to facilitate the investigation, detection, treatment, and prevention of child sexual abuse and severe physical abuse. Its most significant activities are prevention and victim services.

Target demographics: provide healing and hope to child victims of abuse.

Direct beneficiaries per year: 845 Children Interviewed about alleged abuse; 27,083 Children received Prevention Education; 2,057 Adults Received Prevention Education

Geographic areas served: Northeast Missouri

Programs: Sexual assault victim services - providing forensic interviewing, advocacy, mental health therapy, in coordination with law enforcement, dfs, juvenile and prosecutor officers.

sexual assault prevention services - providing school based prevention training programs such as body safety, internet safety, and sexual harrassment; prevention and awareness training for parents; mandated reported training for professionals.