The Children’s Advocacy Center is a multi-disciplinary team of partners that promotes the healing of child sexual abuse victims by providing a strong community response to investigation, treatment and prevention of abuse. Of the 474 children seen in the past two years by our local center, 20 percent were abused by a sibling. Globally, one-third […]
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Multi-disciplinary team aids victims
To understand what a Children’s Advocacy Center (CAC) is, it is helpful to understand what children face without one. Without a CAC, the child may have to tell the worst story of his or her life repeatedly to doctors, police, lawyers, therapists, investigators, judges and others. They may have to talk about that traumatic experience […]
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Kat Perry to speak at Breakfast Rotary Club meeting
AUBURN — Kat Perry, program manager of the Children’s Advocacy Center of Androscoggin, Franklin and Oxford counties, will be the guest speaker at the Auburn-Lewiston Rotary Breakfast Club meeting on Feb. 8. Perry has lived in Androscoggin County for over 20 years and has committed the past 25 years of her professional life to supporting […]
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April is Child Abuse Awareness Month
Child sexual abuse is any interaction between a child and an adult (or another child) in which the child is used for the sexual stimulation of the perpetrator or an observer. Sexual abuse can include both touching and non-touching behaviors. We can all agree that this is horrifying and most of us encourage children to […]