Childrens Advocacy Center of Northeastern Pennsylvania

The Children's Advocacy Center of northeastern Pennsylvania ("cacnepa") provides medical assessments and child forensic interviews for victims of abuse and neglect and coordinates a multi-disciplinary team response to child abuse and neglect in lackawanna and surrounding counties of northeastern Pennsylvania. Cacnepa provides child abuse prevention education to professionals and communities served.cacnepa is driven by a multi-disciplinary investigative team (mdit) consisting of professionals from cacnepa, the district attorney's office, children and youth services (cps), law enforcement, and mental health personnel. Cases are reviewed by the mdit on a monthly basis.since 1998, cacnepa has grown its child-abuse intervention team to five medical personnel: three board certified physicians, crnp /sane-a/sane-p (sexual abuse nurse examiner) and an rn, two child forensic interviewers, a child/family victim advocate, trauma counselors, and five administrative personnel including the executive director, the program director, grant-writer, fiscal manager, fundraising and event coordinator. Cacnepa team members are on call 24/7.