05/20/2026
🚨 Your voice can help protect children in our community. 🚨
Kids First needs your support.
We are asking our community to contact our state representatives, and urge them to support continued funding for services that help child victims of abuse and their families.
Every day, Kids First provides critical services—including advocacy, forensic interviews, counseling support, and hope—to children and families navigating the trauma of abuse across 7 counties. These services are essential, but they depend on funding to continue.
💙 Please take a moment today to email our representatives and let them know that funding for child abuse victims matters. All you need to do is to copy the email below and add your name. Email addresses are also listed below.
Together, we can ensure children in our community continue to receive the help, healing, and hope they deserve.
[email protected] - State Senator
[email protected] - State Representative
[email protected] - State Representative
Email -
Dear (Senator/Representative Name),
You are familiar with Kids First Child Advocacy Center’s services to local victims of child abuse in our community and have been a valued supporter throughout your time in office.
In 2025, Kids First provided forensic interviews, victim advocacy, child medical evaluations, mental health support, and a coordinated multidisciplinary response to 243 new victims of child abuse. Kids First serves Pasquotank, Camden, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Perquimans, and Chowan counties and as such these children are residents of your district.
I am asking you to include $20 million from the North Carolina General Assembly to Children’s Advocacy Centers of North Carolina in the final state budget. Federal funding has continued to drop sharply, with no resolution in sight. All of this is challenging the stability of CACs while the need for their services continues to grow. Children here, in the First Judicial District], rely on Kids First to be there for children affected by abuse and this funding will help ensure that Kids First remains as a critical resource for victims.
The future of our children and the safety of our communities is directly impacted by our Children’s Advocacy Center. The state has been a tremendous champion of this work and our children. The time is now to continue that support by including $20 million from the North Carolina General Assembly to Children’s Advocacy Centers of North Carolina in the final state budget to ensure that services remain available here, close to home, for children and families when they need it.
Thank you,
(Your Name)
