Children's Cove - The Cape and Islands Child Advocacy Center
Child abuse is rampant—a child in the United States
is sexually abused every six minutes; before they
are 18, one in four girls and one in six boys will be
victims, in 90% of cases by someone they know and
trust—usually a family member. More tragically still,
those children suffer in silence; only 30% ever tell
anyone what has happened. In 1997, FCC was created
by a collaboration of state and local government
agencies, with child service philanthropies of the Task
Force on Children. As a single, central, private, safe,
free-of-charge, setting for victims and their non-offending
family members, in which they can report,
record, and therapeutically deal with this traumatic
and sensitive experience. Instead of trudging to several
scary, bureaucratic public agencies for the stressful
ordeal of reporting and documenting sexual abuse,
children and their families can go to one non-threatening
place for a forensic interview, a medical exam,
and treatment, even financial help if, as sometimes
happens, the breadwinner must be removed from
the home. CC has gained national and statewide
recognition as a collaborative regional model, and has
developed a rapidly expanding intervention network.
In 2006 alone, it served 316 families. The gravity of
this excellent initiative merits your support.

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