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Happy Mother’s Day!

Posted by: cacjc / May 5, 2021

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

A Late Mother’s Day Salute

Posted by: cacjc / May 12, 2020 / Tags: Coronavirus, Covid19, Mommy Tribe, Mother's Day, Mother's Day 2020, Pandemic

By Tammi Pitzen, Executive Director of the Children’s Advocacy Center of Jackson County I am late with my Mother’s Day blog posting this year. It seems that along with all of you, it is taking me longer to get things done because my brain is filled with all things COVID-19. I actually think a

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

Mighty Together on Giving Tuesday

Posted by: cacjc / Dec 2, 2019

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

A Thanksgiving Message From Our Executive Director

Posted by: cacjc / Nov 27, 2019 / Tags: Tammi Pitzen, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving 2019, Volunteers

Greetings from Tammi Pitzen, CACJC Executive Director Happy Thanksgiving to all of you on behalf of the Children’s Advocacy Center of Jackson County Board, Staff, Advisory Council, and volunteers! As I am rush around today to try to get things wrapped up before the snow comes in and in preparation for a couple

Silent promises to my friend, Wendy

Posted by: cacjc / Jan 23, 2019 / Tags: child abuse survivor, Healing from painful things, reporting child abuse, Tammi Pitzen, trauma

By Tammi Pitzen, Executive Director of The Children’s Advocacy Center of Jackson County I have been wanting to write this post for a long time. I asked the person who is at the heart of this story – twice — if it was okay. I have sat down hundreds of times trying to get started

Un futuro brillante

Posted by: cacjc / Nov 28, 2018 / Tags: Amy Stoeber, Resiliance

By Claudia Cervantes, Bilingual Training Coordinator for the Protect Our Children Project Recientemente asistí al Encuentro Regional de Coordinadores del Proyecto Protegiendo a Nuestros Niños que tuvo lugar en Eugene. Fue un día completo de inspiración y aprendizaje, y sin duda puedo puedo decir que después de la primera conferencia, yo ya no era la

Today. Right Now. I Am Hopeful.

Posted by: cacjc / Oct 22, 2018 / Tags: consent, hope, sexual assault, Women's Suffrage Movement

By Tammi Pitzen, Executive Director of the Children’s Advocacy Center of Jackson County As I sat down to write this blog, I sort of hit a mental block about what I wanted to talk about. Not something that happens to me frequently. Ask my husband and he will tell you I am a woman of

Finding a Voice: Vince Gill

Posted by: cacjc / Feb 19, 2018 / Tags: Finding our voice, Hollywood, Leah Howell, Nashville, PROTECT OUR CHILDREN Child Abuse Prevention Training, Ryman Auditorium, Variety Magazine, Vince Gill

By Leah Howell, Training Coordinator for the Protect Our Children Project of the Children’s Advocacy Center I’m not much of a country music fan, though I lived 30 minutes from Nashville throughout my college years, and for sometime afterward. Even now, 20 years later, I will read about a country musician, that will bring

USA Women Gymnasts Show Our Daughters That You Can Tell

Posted by: cacjc / Feb 2, 2018 / Tags: 2018 Winter Olympics, Curling, Larry Nassar, USA Gymnastics Program, women athletes

By Tammi Pitzen, Executive Director of the Children’s Advocacy Center of Jackson County This is an Olympic year. I mean that quite literally. This year athletes will compete in the Winter Olympics. The very best of the best in just about every sporting event you can think of. Recently my son and I were learning

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