Enhanced VolunteerIn the 1990’s Child Advocacy Centers (CACs) were developed in Missouri to innovate and improve upon the social services and criminal justice systems’ response to the needs of children and families whose lives had been devastated by s***** abuse. The directors of the centers began meeting as a group in the early nineties to network, support each other and develop statewide training for multidisciplinary teams.
In 1999 the General Assembly revised Section 210.001 of the Revised Statues of Missouri to include language codifying what was then known as regional “child assessment centers”. Since that time additional regional centers have been added. Today, there are 15 regional CACs with 22 full-service, nationally accredited (National Children’s Alliance) sites across Missouri providing services to all counties in the state.