Mission
Our Mission & History:
The mission of the Georgia Center for Child Advocacy is to champion the needs of sexually and severely physically abused children through prevention, intervention, therapy, and collaboration.
The Center’s Strategic Plan includes:
- Taking the leadership role in Fulton and DeKalb Counties in facilitating collaboration, communication, and appropriate case coordination and management in both sexual and severe physical abuse cases and
- developing and building co-located facilities in which social and medical services, law enforcement and prosecutorial resources work together in close proximity, and
- providing professional and timely forensic services and psychotherapy at no cost to child victims of sexual abuse, severe physical abuse and child witnesses to homicide, and
- providing training to professionals and expert testimony in court cases, and
- training one million adults throughout Georgia by 2020 to prevent, recognize and react responsibly to child sexual abuse.
The Georgia Center for Child Advocacy was established as a private, non-profit agency in 1987. These services are provided at no cost to children who reside in or were abused in DeKalb or Fulton County. The Georgia Center for Child Advocacy’s role throughout the criminal investigation is to focus on the child’s needs, rather than focusing on the crime itself.
In 1992 the Georgia Center for Child Advocacy became the 10th agency in the country to become an accredited member of the National Children’s Alliance and the first in the state of Georgia. It now stands as one of almost seven hundred programs nationwide providing similar services for abused children. The Georgia Center for Child Advocacy has been honored by UNICEF and The Carter Center as recipient of the 1994 Child Survival Award. The Center was also honored as designated charity of the 1997 Cathedral Antiques Show, as beneficiary of the 2000 WXIA Community Service Awards Dinner, and acknowledged as the finalist for the 2002 Managing for Excellence Award given by the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta. In 2009, the Georgia Center for Child Advocacy was named Non-Profit of the Year by the Georgia Minority Business Awards. Also in 2009, one of our volunteers was recognized for her outstanding work at the 34th Annual Community Service Awards presented by Channel 11, WXIA/WATL television
Since 1994, the Georgia Center for Child Advocacy has provided investigative and intervention services through our two facilities to any child in Fulton or DeKalb County suspected of having been a victim of child sexual abuse, severe physical abuse or was a witness to violent crime.
