Children’s Advocacy Center
WHO WE ARE
Southwest Mississippi Children’s Advocacy Center (SWMSCAC) is a non-profit agency established in 1999 and is a member of the National Children’s Alliance. We provide a variety of services under one umbrella to childhood victims of abuse in our local communities and their families at no cost to them.
We serve as a central hub for Pike, Lincoln, Amite, Walthall, and Copiah counties using a multidisciplinary approach which prioritizes the child by assisting him/her with trauma recovery and ensuring future safety as we work to prosecute offenders.
Our multidisciplinary team (MDT) consists of law enforcement agencies, child protection services, forensic interviewers, mental/medical health services, prosecution, and victim advocacy. In all that we do here at SWMSCAC, our ultimate focus is on helping victims become children again.
OUR MISSION
The mission of Southwest Mississippi Children’s Advocacy Center is to provide a safe, non-threatening place for child abuse victims and their families to receive a comprehensive array of services, which include the initial interview, court preparation, referral services, and on-site therapy services.
Services available at the Center will be focused on providing victims and their families with treatment, education, and support, while effectively coordinating available community resources. The support given to child victims helps begin the recovery process and also facilitates their movement through the criminal justice system. The Center will strive to provide, in all of its programs and services, a community based response to the epidemic of child abuse through treatment and prevention of re-victimization.
Services available at the Center will be focused on providing victims and their families with treatment, education, and support, while effectively coordinating available community resources. The support given to child victims helps begin the recovery process and also facilitates their movement through the criminal justice system. The Center will strive to provide, in all of its programs and services, a community based response to the epidemic of child abuse through treatment and prevention of re-victimization.
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