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Child‑advocacy centers seek statutory recognition to protect abused children statewide (H233/S112)
Summary
The Massachusetts Children's Alliance and local Children's Advocacy Centers urged the committee to pass bills (H233/S112) that would codify and protect the CAC model in state law; testimony stressed that CACs served 6,709 children in one 12‑month period and that Massachusetts is one of four states without enabling statute
Boston — Leaders of the Massachusetts Children's Alliance and local child‑advocacy centers told the Joint Committee that codifying children's advocacy centers (CACs) in state statute would protect an evidence‑based, multidisciplinary model that serves thousands of child victims of sexual abuse, trafficking and other serious maltreatment.
"Children's advocacy centers provide a trauma‑informed multidisciplinary response to allegations of child sexual abuse and trafficking,"…
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