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Child advocacy centers urge funding to expand trauma‑informed services and reduce PRTF wait lists
Summary
Children's Advocacy Centers of Kansas told the committee that CACs produce cost savings and earlier trauma treatment, but state grant cuts threaten capacity; centers requested about $3.8 million to sustain and expand services and to train clinicians in problematic sexualized behavior treatment.
Casey Dahlke, executive director of Children's Advocacy Centers of Kansas, told the committee CACs provide coordinated, trauma‑informed services that streamline investigations, increase prosecution substantiation rates and reduce the costs of traditional multi‑agency responses.
Dahlke said CACs use multidisciplinary teams—law enforcement, child protection, prosecution, medical and mental‑health providers and victim advocates—to conduct interviews and coordinate care in child‑friendly settings. She told the committee the CAC model reduces average interagency costs from roughly $4,000 per case…
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