Child Advocacy Center

The One Place Child Advocacy Center (CAC) is a child-focused facility providing hope and healing to children from birth to age 17 who have experienced physical abuse, sexual abuse, serious neglect, and/or violence. 

Our Approach 

The Child Advocacy Center model provides a powerful child-focused environment where law enforcement, child protective services, prosecution, and medical and mental health professionals can work together and develop a coordinated strategy to support a child in need. Our approach is based on a nationwide model of child advocacy centers and we are accredited by the National Children’s Alliance. 

How We Help

Our multidisciplinary team of professionals responds to reports of physical abuse, sexual abuse, serious neglect, or violence. We investigate alleged abuse, conduct forensic interviews, provide sensitive medical exams, offer family advocacy, and identify vital resources so children and families can begin to heal and build resilience.  

At a Child Advocacy Center, a child tells their story only once to a trained interviewer, preventing any retraumatization from occurring, and providing them with a safe place to heal. Forensic medical exams are completed by medical providers rostered as trained child abuse experts through the Child Medical Evaluation Program at UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Pediatrics. Our Child Advocacy Center employs the only two rostered providers in Onslow County.  All of our services are offered in a safe, sensitive, and child-centered environment. 

We also offer resources and referrals to evidence-based mental health services to help reduce trauma and improve the lives of children and their families in Onslow County.