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Abuse steals innocence and trust.
Your donation helps us
- Maintain a private and safe
environment that is child-focused.
- Provide a caring, multi-disciplinary
team of professionals.
- Reduce personal and societal costs
associated with child abuse.
“Child Advocacy Centre
Niagara provides support, care, and compassion to the most vulnerable members of
our society during extremely stressful times. The Centre represents
another example of Niagara’s commitment to children who often do not have the
opportunity to share their own voice. As a mother, grandmother,
paediatrician and the region’s Medical Officer of Health, I honour the work of
the Centre.”
Partners
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Family and Children’s Services
Family and Children's Services Niagara is your local Children's Aid Society, serving Niagara since 1898. Mandated by the Child and Family Services Act to investigate the abuse and neglect of children and to provide protection, foster care and adoption services, FACS offers a wide range of programs to prevent and treat the problems of abuse and neglect and to support the children, youth and families of our community.
Niagara Regional Police Services
Facts and information related to the Niagara Regional Police Service.
Learn about their history, organizational structure, and more!
Family Counselling Centre Niagara
The Family Counselling Centre offers counselling services to individuals, couples and families at several locations in the Niagara region. We employ qualified, experienced counsellors with the expertise to address personal, relationship and other troubling issues like depression, anger, stress, grief, parenting, trauma or violence. We provide confidential counselling services and are fully accredited by Family Service Ontario
Canadian Red Cross
For more than 70 years, the Canadian Red Cross has been providing in-home community services to help individuals in Ontario live as independently as possible. The services, now expanded to Atlantic Canada, enhance people's well-being and dignity, be they frail or elderly, children at risk, people with disabilities or palliative patients.
About Child Advocacy Centre Niagara
Who We Are and What We Do
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Child Advocacy Centre Niagara exists solely to
"serve victimized children" within Niagara's twelve municipalities who have suffered abuse. The Centre is "a safe place to tell your secrets" for children traumatized by abuse. A friendly, caring team of professionals work together in a private, safe, child-friendly place. Children are able to provide information that aids in the investigation and prosecution of perpetrators. Follow-up counselling is provided. |
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Professional partners are Niagara Regional Police, Family and
Children's Services, Family Counselling Centre Niagara and Medical
professionals. Situated at 8 Forster Street, St. Catharines, Ontario the Centre opened its doors in the fall of 2008 and is the first dedicated facility of its kind in Canada. The need for Child Advocacy Centres in Canada is great. Within the municipalities of Niagara alone, the latest statistics exposed 708 cases of physical and 343 cases of sexual child abuse. Download Brochure Advocacy centres have a real impact that is measurable not just in terms of benefits to victims and their families, but also in dollars. Research by the National Children's Alliance in the USA confirms that an investigation into a child abuse case in a community with a CAC is 45% less expensive than in a community without a CAC. |
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Child Advocacy Centre Niagara (CACN) is a community-driven non-profit organization, governed by a Board of Directors. Niagara’s 12 municipalities are served:
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Fort Erie - Grimsby - Lincoln - Niagara Falls - Niagara-on-the-Lake - Pelham |
- Port Colborne - St. Catharines - Thorold - Wainfleet - Welland - West Lincoln |
Our Vision
"Helping victims become children again"
Our Mission
"Serve victimized children"
Our Values
Sustainability Accountability CollaborationCAC Referral Policy
Referrals are made through Family and Children's Services. Please call
screening at
905 937-7731 x1305.
