Challenges Of The Child Advocacy Center: The Child Advocacy Center

1. The non-profit organization that I teamed up with over the course of the semester is The Child Advocacy Center (CAC), located here in the city of Lincoln Nebraska. Their goal as a facility is to foster hope and healing, seek justice, and reduce trauma for children who may have experienced different types or other traumatic situations such as physical or sexual abuse. They work to provide a variety of services to families including medical evaluations, professional interviews, but most importantly, the work to provide advocacy and support to these children and their non-offending caregivers. I had the privilege of working directly with Christy Prang, the director of training and prevention. 2. Going into this community project, my goal …show more content…
She wanted me gather perspective of other organizations, but more specifically wanted me to pay detailed attention to the precise language that these websites and pamphlets used. Christy explained that she always is finding new organizations that inspire her but does not exactly have the time to go through and look at them with the time that they deserve. I was able to examine all of the resources and break down exactly what type of language these organizations were using and what message they were promoting through their words. These resources including things such as other non-profit organization’s websites, child books about what abuse can look like, new laws or awareness programs previous abuse survivors are working towards enforcing around the country, and a variety of …show more content…
The majority of the education I feel I have received in the past on child abuse has been centered around the warning signs of the children, and long-term consequences these children may face as a result. Before this volunteer work there was very few I knew about the offenders themselves. During my time spent at the CAC Christy shared with me, which was verified in my research, the process known as ‘grooming’. This is the process of when an offender begins to lure a child into sexual relationships and in most instances the child does not even realize this is happening. This process includes steps such as gaining the child’s trust, isolating the victim, sexualizing the relationship, and then maintaining complete control of the child. Although these offenders can be any race, gender, or age, the majority are going to be men looking to work at an organization of company with few or ill enforced protocols and an overpopulated amount of kids. They will use this position of leadership to take advantage, and prey on