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Bright Tomorrows reports 259 forensic interviews last year, urges flexible county support as state grant restricts spending
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At a Bannock County commissioners meeting, Cassidy Roski of Bright Tomorrows described a high caseload of forensic interviews, noted improvements in scheduling, and warned that a new one‑year state allocation carries spending limits that leave gaps for the center’s operating needs.
At a meeting of the Bannock County Board of Commissioners, Cassidy Roski, executive director of Bright Tomorrows, told commissioners the child advocacy center conducted about 259 forensic interviews last year and is seeing shorter wait times for new reports.
Roski said Bright Tomorrows provides trauma‑informed, child‑friendly forensic interviews so law enforcement and the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare can focus on investigations. "When a child makes a disclosure of abuse, rather than having law enforcement or health and welfare talk to the kids in the principal's office or the police department, they come to our center that is child friendly, we're trauma informed," Roski said.
The center also meets with parents to offer support and provides counseling…
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