Nueces County Children's Advocacy Center Needs Help

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Story Created: Sep 17, 2008 at 9:28 PM CST

Story Updated: Sep 18, 2008 at 2:35 PM CST

(Corpus Christi, 9/17/08) Last year alone, the Nueces County Children's Advocacy Center conducted more than 17-hundred forensic interviews from coastal bend children.

Each year the number of cases continues to climb, but the funding continues to decrease.

The center's program director says something has to give and it could likely be at child's expense.

The Children's Advocacy Centers mission, to lessen the trauma, abused children and their families are already feeling. \

Staff work closely with public agencies, like Child Protective Services and law enforcement investigators, and conduct one forensic interview. That's video taped, so the child does not have to relive the traumatic event, over and over again.

But now more than one-third of the centers annual budget is gone,after a victims of crime act grant was not renewed.

If you'd like to help, make a private donation, call 361-855-9058

The center is located at: 502 McClendon Street, Corpus Christi, TX 78404

Thursday, Dec 4 at 1:59 PM tess wrote ...

children like i was when i was a child did not have this organization to help. now that they are avaliable, why the hell wont the state provide better funding to save these children?

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Thursday, Sep 18 at 12:56 AM RICH wrote ...

Its really pathetic and sad when people of higher authority and position do not stand up and step in to help the children of nueces and of the u.s.! particularly government and state officials!

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