Training for Advocates Working with a CAC

This training meets all essential training components in the 2023 National Children’s Alliance (NCA) Standard of Victim Advocacy and has been approved by the NCA. 

First Witness Child Advocacy Center’s advocacy program bridges the gap between individual advocacy with one victim and system-based advocacy that creates change for many victims. This contrasts with more restrictive advocacy models that are based on delivering services identified by practitioners and systems rather than victims. 

Through hands-on practice, participants will learn how to put advocacy principles into action, including:  

• Examining advocacy principles through the lens of their organization, 

• changing organizations and systems, and  

• creating programs and interventions that meet victims’ needs. 

Participants will practice skills for effective crisis intervention and advocacy, problem solving, and decision making around the toughest issues in advocacy work.