Children's Advocacy Center of North and Northwest Cook County

Coordination, Advocacy and sensitive interviewing (casi): this program provides direct intervention in child sexual abuse cases through coordination of the multidisciplinary investigation, crisis intervention for victims, child sensitive interviews, medical evaluations, court preparation and Advocacy, referrals, and extensive follow-up and case tracking.

Safe from the start (sfts): this program is an effort to develop and implement coordinated community systems for preventing and responding to the harmful effects of exposure to violence on children from birth to age five. The project began at the national level and has since filtered down to state and local areas.

Family support services (fss): this program is designed to assess, monitor, and treat children and families where an allegation of abuse has been investigated and risk to the child(ren) is not sufficient to warrant protective placement or in-tact family services. These services are provided through intensive case planning, home visits, counseling, support groups for victims and non-offending parents, and community resource linkages.