March 2020

Tips for making it through Covid-19 concerns while your children are at home

Posted by: cacjc / Mar 26, 2020

By Tammi Pitzen, Executive Director of the Children’s Advocacy Center of Jackson County The Coronavirus has become a pandemic crisis impacting every aspect of our lives. Parents are being forced into the role of educator as our children are pushed into a home-schooling situation. To add to that stress, many of us do not know

Center Open, but limited to Emergency & Crisis Situations

Posted by: cacjc / Mar 18, 2020 / Tags: CDC, Coronavirus, COVID 19, Donations, forensic interviews, HIPPA, Protect Our children Trainings, Therapy

IMPORTANT MESSAGE The Children’s Advocacy Center of Jackson County will remain open but limited to emergency and crisis related situations. Our therapy department will be moving to providing services by phone or a HIPPA complaint web based platform. This week most appointments were cancelled in order to work out a process to move in a

Thirty Stories from Thirty Years: Story Number 2

Posted by: cacjc / Mar 10, 2020 / Tags: 30 From 30, 30 Stories From 30 Years, child protection workers, Investigation of Child Abuse, Louisiana, Resiliency, self-care, Thirty From Thirty

By Tammi Pitzen, Executive Director of The Children’s Advocacy Center of Jackson County This is story #2 in Tammi Pitzen’s series of 30 stories from her 30 years working in child welfare. You can read all the stories here. For me, this reflection on my journey is more about examining moments in time that helped

Thirty Stories From Thirty Years: Story Number 1

Posted by: cacjc / Mar 4, 2020 / Tags: 30 From 30, 30 Stories From 30 Years, compassion fatigue, Humor as self-care, interviewing protocols, Ouachita Parish Sheriffs Office, Resiliency, secondary trauma, self-care, State of Louisiana Office of Community Services, Tammi Pitzen, Thirty Stories from Thirty Years, Vicarious Trauma

By Tammi Pitzen, Executive Director of the Children’s Advocacy Center of Jackson County This is story #1 in Tammi Pitzen’s series of 30 stories from her 30 years working in child welfare. You can read all the stories here. I quietly celebrated the beginning of my thirtieth year of a career in child protection a

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