Alabama Network of Children’s Advocacy Centers ANCAC

Mission

- The Alabama Network of Children’s Advocacy Centers, Inc. (ANCAC or the Network) is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to promote the multi-disciplinary process in fostering an abuse-free society for Alabama’s children and support the development of the children’s advocacy center model through public awareness, training and networking.

- The Network achieves this mission through 24 full-member advocacy centers, and five pilot projects that serve 54 counties with forensic interviewing, evaluations and counseling.

- The individual centers are located throughout the state and ultimately operate as separate, private, non-profit agencies. However, the centers do come together for various occurrences.

Work

- In Fiscal Year 2003/2004 ANCAC members (child advocacy centers) provided 8,580 services to abused children

- ANCAC members provided forensic interviews for 5,101 abused children

- There were 1,882 cases of severe physical or sexual child abuse referred to a District Attorney’s office for prosecution by ANCAC members

- ANCAC members referred 1,149 children for medical exams because of severe physical or sexual abuse

- There were 15,572 counseling sessions provided by ANCAC members

- Of all the children receiving services from an ANCAC member 65.36 percent were Caucasian, 31.8 percent were African American, 1.43 percent were Hispanic, and 1.41 percent were other

- 32 percent of children receiving services were 0 - 6 and 13 - 18-years-old; 36 percent were 7 - 12-years-old

- ANCAC members brought $4,012,030 of federal grant funding into Alabama (includes Victims of Crime Act/ADECA money)

-Other grant money received by ANCAC members totals $138,500