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Kansas CAC Services and Outcomes
In FY 09, children’s advocacy centers in Kansas...
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Served more than 3, 400 children with child-centered investigative interviews and victim advocacy.
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Made more than 1,100 referrals to specialized mental health therapeutic services to aid children’s emotional healing.
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Made more than 400 referrals to specialized medical providers to ensure children receive appropriate healthcare.
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Provided more than 1,200 non-offending caregivers of abused children with advocacy services to help them resolve the abuse crisis.
Research and CACs
CACs Make a Difference
In 2006, researchers at the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire released findings from the five-year multi-site national evaluation of the CAC model. Data from over 1000 cases of sexual abuse handled by communities with and without a CAC were collected and subject to comparison analysis.
Highlights:
- CACs showed significantly more evidence of coordinated investigations.
- More children involved with a CAC received a specialized medical evaluation.
- More children involved in a CAC were referred to mental health services.
- Parents and caregivers of children served by CACs were more satisfied with the investigation (than those in comparison sample.
CACs Save Money
A national cost-benefit analysis of the Children’s Advocacy Center model shows that CACs save approximately $1,000 per case in services to children and families during the course of a child abuse investigation.
On a per-case basis, traditional investigations were 36% more expensive than a CAC investigation. The cost of a CAC investigation averaged $2,902 compared to $3,949 for a traditional abuse investigation.
In Kansas, that $1,000 per case savings translates to $3,400,000*
For more information, visit Executive Summary: Findings from the NCAC Cost-Benefit Analysis of Community Responses to Child Maltreatment.
*Savings based on number of cases handled through CACs in state FY 2009.
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