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Thirty Stories from Thirty Years: Story Number 3

Posted by: cacjc / Apr 9, 2020 / Tags: 30 From 30, 30 Stories From 30 Years, Child Abuse Prevention Month 2020, child protection career, Child Protection Servies, Conscious Discipline, Crisis Intervention Worker, Deep South, Discipline, Louisiana, Love and Logic, Resiliency, Southern Disciplin, Tammi Pitzen, Thirty Stories from Thirty Years

By Tammi Pitzen, Executive Director of the Children’s Advocacy Center of Jackson County. This is story #3 in Tammi Pitzen’s series of 30 stories from her 30 years working in child welfare. You can read all the stories here. Change Can Build Resiliency Right about now we could all use a little more resiliency with

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

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

My Spin: Oregon’s Top Rank Registered Sex Offenders

Posted by: cacjc / Aug 31, 2018 / Tags: #BackTo SchoolCAC, 5 Steps to Protect Our Children, Back to School, Gorp's Secret, Oregon Sex Offender Registry, PROTECT OUR CHILDREN Child Abuse Prevention Training, Sex Offenders, Sherri Chessen, Stewards of Children, Tammi Pitzen

By Tammi Pitzen, Executive Director of the Children’s Advocacy Center of Jackson County School has started back. At my house we are shifting back to “normal” schedule. You know—the regular routine. 6:30 wake up. 7:12 out the door for school and work. 6:00 get home. 6:15 start our reading homework. 6:45 do the rest of

Sexual abuse, Show Dogs and the sort of apology

Posted by: cacjc / May 24, 2018 / Tags: Global Road Entertainment, Macaroni Kid, Me Too, Show Dogs, Tammi Pitzen, Zen place

By Tammi Pitzen, Executive Director of the Children’s Advocacy Center of Jackson County I started this blog four and a half years ago with the intention of providing insights into child abuse through the lens of a professional career in child protection that spanned several decades. Somewhere along the way the focus or lens shifted

Cherish a Child Luncheon

Posted by: cacjc / Sep 20, 2017 / Tags: 11th Annual Cherish a Child Luncheon, CAC Parent Group, CASA Jackson County Oregon, child abuse survivor, Community Works, DHS, Family Nurturing Center, Family Support Team, Inn at the Commons, Planting a Seed, PROTECT OUR CHILDREN Child Abuse Prevention Training, Tammi Pitzen, The Children's Advocacy Center of Jackson County, The Ford Family Foundation

By Theresa Hart. Development Director for The Children’s Advocacy Center of Jackson County Each year the Children’s Advocacy Center of Jackson County hosts a fundraising luncheon. During these luncheons, guests will receive an update from Tammi Pitzen, CAC Executive Director, about what’s happened at the CAC in the last year. They will also hear the

Tammi Pitzen: The 26th anniversary of living my passion

Posted by: cacjc / Dec 15, 2016 / Tags: abused children, passion, Tammi Pitzen

By Tammi Pitzen, Executive Director of the Children’s Advocacy Center of Jackson County In 1989, I started this quest into the field of child abuse as an intern on the Ouachita Parish Sheriff’s Office child abuse team. It was made up of two women detectives. I graduated in 1990 from Northeast Louisiana University. (They changed

Birthday Wishes: Believe a Child or Not?

Posted by: cacjc / Apr 19, 2016 / Tags: child sexual abuse, forensic interviews, offenders, reporting child abuse, Tammi Pitzen

By Tammi Pitzen, Executive Director of the Children’s Advocacy Center of Jackson County I have a birthday in April. I have no qualms about the number. I will be turning 47. 26 of those years have been spent working in one role or another in the field of child abuse. Wow! That equates to more

A Strong Man

Posted by: cacjc / Apr 10, 2015 / Tags: A stron man, Barnyard movie, Big Idea, Child Abuse Prevention Month, Darkness to Light, Jackson County, Patriarch Cow Ben, Stewards of Children, Tammi Pitzen, United Way of Jackson County, volunteering, young cow Otis

By Tammi Pitzen, Director of The Children’s Advocacy Center of Jackson County I will let you in on a secret. I love animated movies. I love Disney. I love Pixar. Long before I had my son, I would watch these movies . . . usually not on the big screen, but in the privacy of

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