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Mission: Our mission is to improve the lives of abused children in dallas county and provide national leadership on child abuse issues.
Programs: Therapy and childrens advocacy -the organization helps child abuse victims and their non-offending family members heal from trauma, restore their emotional functioning, and ensure a positive and productive adulthood through highly individualized and specialized therapeutic counseling. Forensic interviewer team members ensure a coordinated approach to the investigation, prosecution, and treatment of child abuse cases in dallas county by providing forensic interviews to abused children referred to the center by police, partner hospitals, or cps caseworkers.
education- the organization provides multi-disciplinary training to professionals whose job related duties affect children, as well as community education, on recognizing and reporting abuse and internet safety, and personal safety for children. The center utilizes graduate and postgraduate interns and serves as a training and educational model in the area of child abuse for the state of texas and nationwide.