Pat's Place Child Advocacy Center

Pat's Place is the only child advocacy center serving Mecklenburg County children. They provide a child-friendly setting where a skilled team of professionals work together under one roof to evaluate child sexual abuse allegations by offering forensic interviews, medical exams, multidisciplinary team consultation and family support.

Child Advocacy Centers are widely recognized as the standard for investigating and treating childhood sexual abuse. Without a Child Advocacy Center, children are subjected to multiple interviews, families are left to navigate a confusing, fragmented child protection system, and child abuse professionals lack the coordinated system critical to ensure children receive the intervention and care tailored to each child's unique circumstances.

Incorporated in 2004, Pat's Place is a non-profit 501(c)3 corporation and is one of just over 700 centers nationwide and 29 centers in North Carolina accredited by the National Children's Alliance. Since inception, Pat's Place has assisted over 1,600 children affected by sexual abuse throughout Mecklenburg County.

At Pat's Place, their focus is to help sexually abused children by:

• Increasing the effectiveness of services to child abuse victims
• Reducing the child abuse victim's trauma and expediting recovery
• Preventing further abuse

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