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    Family and Children’s Services
    Family and Children's Services 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.


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About Child Advocacy Centre Niagara

Who We Are and What We Do


 Child Advocacy Centre Niagara exists solely to serve victimized children within Niagara's twelve municipalities who have suffered abuse.
 
The Centre is a non-profit charitable organization that brings Law Enforcement, Family and Children's Services workers, Medical and Mental Health professionals together in one child-friendly location.

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.
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.


CACN is a community-driven initiative, governed by a Board of Directors and provides services to Niagara’s 12 municipalities:

- 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    Collaboration   

CAC Referral Policy

If you have questions about the Child Advocacy Centre's referral policies or services, please call 905 937-7731

If you suspect child abuse, you are required by law to report it. Call Family and Children’s Services of Niagara
- 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You can report anonymously or ask to remain confidential.

Please do NOT attempt to make a report or referral via e mail. Reports should be made by phone or in person.
Your immediate action can help prevent further child abuse and help the family.

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