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Causes: Children & Youth, Children & Youth Services, Counseling, Mental Health
Mission: Serving children from birth to age 18 affected by sexual abuse, pat's place offers a coordinated continuum of services through a neutral, child-friendly facility. Within this facility, child abuse professionals interview, medically examine, and provide treatment services ensuring the child and their family are safe and supported during the process of evaluating sexual abuse. The focus is to help sexually abused children by (1) increasing the effectiveness of services to child abuse victims, (2) reducing the child abuse victim's trauma and expediting recovery, and (3) preventing further abuse.
Programs: Provided case management and coordination of investigative and intervention services for children who are involved in sexual abuse investigations by working with a multidisciplinary team. In addition to the program services of $1,074,972, the center also received in-kind services of $290,708 for medical services.