Before the nationwide Children’s Advocacy Center Movement began, child victims of abuse were under treated by our system. Often, there are several agencies involved in investigating allegations of child abuse. As a result, child victims were interviewed numerous times about the most traumatic events of their lives. Additionally, cases were falling through the cracks because there was not a team approach to investigations.
Today, children’s advocacy centers across the nation provide a child a friendly environment where all investigating agencies now come to the child. The child is interviewed once by a trained forensic interviewer and all agency partners work together as a team to coordinate their investigations and services for the child and their protective family members through the Children’s Advocacy Center.
Paluxy River Children’s Advocacy Center opened its doors on September 1, 2006. It was the 61st center to open in the state of Texas.
Our CAC serves Erath, Hood and Somervell Counties. We provide services for children under the age of 18 who are involved in a case related to sexual abuse and/or severe physical abuse.
“To promote the healing of child abuse victims – one child at a time.”
Bearing in mind the best interest of each individual child, the vision of Paluxy River Children’s Advocacy Center is to reduce the trauma to child abuse victims and their non-offending family members and to work toward improving the justice system’s response to child abuse by uniting the efforts of public agencies and enlisting community support.
Margaret Cohenour, LCSW
Jessica Laskaris
Shannon Hart, LCSW
Shelby Gibson
Shadia Cahall
Shelby Latham, LMSW
Zoya Thompson, LPC
Jamie Franco
Dayja Palma, LMSW
Vanesa Medrano
Cassidy Bullock
Morgan Olijnyk
Jacie Smedley
Tanya Langland
Lindsey Gillespie, LMSW
Sydney Davila, LMSW
Erin Green, LMSW
Social Media Assistant
Carolyn Kendall
Hood, Somervell & Erath Counties
Granbury, Stephenville, Dublin, and Glen Rose Police Department
Hood, Somervell, & Erath Counties
Hood, Somervell, & Erath Counties
Hood, Somervell, & Erath Counties
Paluxy River Children’s Advocacy Center is a non-profit organization. The agency could not exist without the support of the community. Relationships developed with individuals, corporations and community organizations in combination with special events, fundraisers, in-kind donations and federal and state grants serve to create a solid and diversified funding base for the organization.
Contributions to the Children’s Advocacy Center are used to promote the healing of child abuse victims – one child at a time.
Thank you for your interest in the Paluxy River Children’s Advocacy Center. We currently do not have any positions open.