By Your Side For Every Step, Every Question
When your child’s safety is at stake, the journey can feel overwhelming. At CACCT, every family is matched with a dedicated Family Advocate, a compassionate expert who becomes your personal guide, answering questions, offering support, and helping you navigate next steps.
What Does a Family Advocate Do?
Your family advocate is part of your support team and is here to help your family feel informed, supported, and not alone. Throughout the life of your case and beyond, your advocate focuses on helping you understand the process and connect to the help your family needs.
Your family advocate may:

- Serve as a liaison with partner agencies to help you understand the processes and next steps.
- Provide trauma assessments and screenings to help identify your child and families needs.
- Connect your family with resources such as therapy, medical care, victim compensation, financial assistance, support groups, and other community services.
- Stay in touch through check-ins, listening, and ongoing encouragement throughout your journey.
Our advocates work alongside investigators, prosecutors, and service providers while keeping your family's well-being at the center of everything they do.
Emotional Support for Families
Family advocates at CACCT offer more than practical help. They listen, comfort, and empower families during difficult moments. Whether you are feeling angry, anxious, overwhelmed, or simply exhausted, our advocate is there for you and your child.
Your advocate provides steady support, honest guidance, and reassurance when you need it most, helping you navigate uncertainty while honoring your family's strength and resilience.
Continuity and Collaboration
Coordination With the Whole Team
Your family advocate works closely with the multidispclinary team, including law enforcement, Child Protective Services, prosecutors, and other partners. Advocates participate in team meetings to help ensure your family's needs, concerns, and questions are represented and considered.
You do not have to manage complicated systems or conversations on your own. Your advocate helps communicate your perspective, explains information shared by the team, and supports you in understanding processes and next steps throughout your case.
Setting Clear Expectations
The Difference An Advocate Makes
When you come to CACCT, you may be carrying fear, confusion or uncertainty, and you may not know what to expect next. A family advocate is here to walk alongside you and your child during this difficult time.
Your advocate listens to your concerns and helps explain what is happening in a way that feels clear and manageable. They are someone you can turn to with questions, worries, or moments when things feel overwhelming. Your advocate helps share your family's perspective with the professionals involved in your child's case, so your voice is heard and your concerns are respected. They help you understand processes and next steps, without asking you to navigate everything on your own.
Most importantly, your advocate is here to support you with and your child with care, compassion, and respect. You are not expected to have all the answers, and you do not have to go through this alone. Your advocate remains a source of support throughout the life of your case and beyond.
