Traverse Bay Childrens Advocacy Center

Traverse Bay children'Childrens's Advocacy, (tbcac) is committed to protecting children, and supporting families by providing prevention, Advocacy, awareness, multi-disciplinary intervention, assessment, and treatment of child sexual and physical abuse. The Center provides on-site counseling and forensic interview services, all in an environment that is child sensitive, supportive and safe. The Center's intervention and prevention programs serve antrim, grand Traverse, kalkaska, leelanau and wexford counties. From october 1, 2022 through september 30, 2023, 2,311 children and families were served.

Between october 1, 2022 and september 30, 2023, the tbcac continued with the program described as a "public will campaign" to make child sexual abuse rare and non-recurring in our lifetime. The program is funded through corporate sponsorship from the Michigan state university over a period of 5 years in annual grant installments. The campaign entails discovery, development, implementation, and evaluation of prevention interventions in the grand Traverse region to be eventually expanded statewide.