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Happy Father’s Day!

Written by Tammi Pitzen, Executive Director of the Children’s Advocacy Center of Jackson County This weekend is Father’s Day.  Now that I have a child I often think back to what it was like for me when I was his age. I remember my Daddy teaching me things like how to fish and how to

Happy Mother’s Day!

Written by Tammi Pitzen, Executive Director of the Children’s Advocacy Center of Jackson County  With motherhood comes many worries and many rewards.  There is a quote that  goes something like, “Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had and dealing with fears you didn’t know existed”  by Linda Wooten.  I think

Upcoming 2023 Protect Our Children Prevention Trainings

  Stewards of Children Stewards of Children is an evidence-informed, award-winning two-hour training that teaches adults to prevent, recognize, and react responsibly to child sexual abuse. Through interviews with child sexual abuse survivors, experts, and treatment providers, Stewards of Children® teaches adults practical actions they can take to reduce instances of child sexual abuse in

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

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

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

Mighty Together on Giving Tuesday

  By Summer Lewis, Internet Marketing Contractor for the Children’s Advocacy Center of Jackson County For a long time I was obsessed with wanting to work for this nonprofit in my community called, The Children’s Advocacy Center (CAC). I applied for their various job openings without success — until they needed a contractor to handle

Calling All Grandparents!

  By Betsy Lewis, Internet and Social Media Contractor for the Children’s Advocacy Center of Jackson County I don’t know about you, but back when I was a parent in the 1980s and ‘90s I didn’t know much about child abuse or how to prevent it. I just assumed it wouldn’t happen to my kids