Join us for Giving Tuesday – December 3, 2024
Giving Tuesday was created years ago with the simple idea: a day to encourage people to do good. Whether helping a neighbor, showing up for the people you care about, sharing information about the causes close to your heart, or giving through a donation, Giving Tuesday is a chance for us to give together.
A gift to the Children’s Advocacy Project can help our organization continue to give in ways many can’t even imagine. You can give the gift of advocacy, justice, healing, awareness, and hope to child victims of abuse in Wyoming and surrounding areas.
Learn more about what we do and how you can be part of giving this season:
GIVE ADVOCACY
The Children’s Advocacy Project helps to create a more efficient response to child abuse. Through coordinating services with a team of committed agencies and individual professionals, we create a more effective community response to child maltreatment.
That team is made up of The District Attorney Office, Victim Services Office, Law Enforcement, Social Workers, Child Forensic Interviewer, Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner, Therapists, and Child and Family Advocates.
Together we coordinate services in our child-friendly facility to help ensure that child victims and their families are receiving the most effective and timely care.
We are committed to improving the lives of victims of child abuse and neglect in our community.
Help the us continue to advocate that children of abuse in our community receive the most effective and efficient care.
GIVE JUSTICE
Forensic interviews are the first step at the Children’s Advocacy Project when there is suspected child abuse or maltreatment.
The interview is conducted in a developmentally-sensitive, unbiased and truth seeking manner that will support accurate and fair decision-making in the criminal justice and child welfare systems. Through a series of non-leading questions, the interviewer gently assesses the child’s communication skills, so the interview is conducted at a level consistent with the child’s developmental abilities.
Forensic interviews obtain information from the child that might be helpful to a criminal investigation and create a case that will hold up in court. Forensic interviews also minimize the number of times a child has to tell their story of abuse, thus lessening the trauma associated with reliving the abuse each time they talk about it.
The Children's Advocacy Project has conducted over 5,300 forensic interviews since opening in 2002.
Help us continue to bring justice to the lives of children who have been hurt by abuse.
GIVE HEALING
Mental health services at the Children’s Advocacy Project not only address the abuse allegations but the needs of specialized population who are victims of sexual/physical abuse. Therapists conduct individual, family, and/or group counseling. By creating a safe, therapeutic relationship, children and their families are able to process their experiences and begin healing from the abuse they have endured.
Unaddressed adverse childhood experiences including trauma and abuse can have lifelong negative effects on both mental and physical health.
In 2023, the Children's Advocacy Project conducted 441 individual counseling services.
Through September 2024, we have conducted 487 individual counseling sessions.
Help us continue to bring healing to the lives of children who have been traumatized by abuse.
GIVE AWARENESS
We work to bring awareness and education to the devastating impact child abuse can have on individuals and a community.
The Children’s Advocacy Project provides training courses to organizations and groups to teach adults how to prevent child abuse, how to recognize abuse, and how to react responsibly to child abuse. CAP also offers in-school trainings for children to be able to understand what abuse looks like and what to do if abuse is happening to them.
In 2023, the Children's Advocacy Project team provided trainings/presentations to 165 individual community members and professional trainings for investigative teams to 124 attendees.
In 2024, we have already provided trainings/presentations to 196 community members from the start of the year through September.
Help us continue to bring an increased awareness to preventing child abuse in our community.
GIVE HOPE
By giving to the Children’s Advocacy Project, you help us to continue to provide hope, hope that we can continue to provide justice, healing, advocacy, and awareness to child abuse and child abuse prevention. Along with the hope that one day no child will have to endure the trauma of abuse, but until then, we will continue to provide a safe environment for the children who come through our door to begin to heal.
Give advocacy, justice, healing, hope and awareness to child victims of abuse and maltreatment in our community.
Other ways to give:
Give knowledge: Learning the facts can be the most powerful tool in preventing child abuse.
Give your voice: Lend your voice to be an advocate for causes and issues you care about. We have resources to help your voice be heard. Share our Facebook or Instagram or our blog posts to help give a voice to child abuse prevention.
Give a donation: The Children's Advocacy Project provides services to our victims free of charge. Our vital services would not be possible without your support.
Give kindness: Wherever you go, whatever you are doing, it costs nothing to give out a little kindness.