Give ’Till It Helps: Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center Makes Its Pitch for Your Support
We reached out to this participating nonprofit and others for their ‘elevator pitch’ to potential donors.
Read more below, and look for one or two participating nonprofits to be featured on our website daily between now and Sept. 19.
Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center
Focus: improving the lives of abused children
Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center (DCAC) is the only agency of its kind in Dallas County, providing unduplicated services to victims of criminal child abuse.
Our multidisciplinary team reads every report of child abuse made in Dallas County — about 30,500 reports each year. We work alongside law enforcement, Child Protective Services, and other partner agencies to coordinate the investigation and prosecution of cases that rise to the criminal level, and provide healing services and care for victim children and families.
DCAC’s clients are children who have been sexually abused, severely physically abused, or children who have witnessed a violent crime, like a homicide. Our average client is a 9-year-old girl who has been sexually abused by someone she knows and trusts.
– Compiled by John Anderson, Lucy Van Meir, and Aadhya Yanamadala
