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Children's advocacy centers push to be codified in Massachusetts law
Summary
The Massachusetts Children's Alliance and local CAC directors urged the committee to pass S.112/H.233 to enshrine children's advocacy centers in state statute, calling the CAC model the trauma-informed, multidisciplinary standard for responding to child sexual abuse and trafficking.
Representatives of the Massachusetts Children's Alliance, local children's advocacy centers (CACs), and a county district attorney told the committee the CAC model is the evidence-based, trauma-informed standard for responding to child sexual abuse and trafficking, and that the model should be codified in state law.
"Children's advocacy centers or CACs provide a trauma informed multidisciplinary response to…
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