NMAC is a 501(c)(3) Child Advocacy Center partners with communities to support children impacted by abuse and work to prevent future harm through compassionate care and education across rural MI. Our services include both intervention and prevention programming. Through our intervention programs, we provide forensic interviewing, victim advocacy, multi-disciplinary team (MDT) collaboration, and cr
isis counseling. We work with three MDTs made up of professionals in Clare, Gladwin, and Missaukee Counties. Representation on our MDTs include the Prosecuting Attorney's Office, law enforcement, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, mental health agencies, medical agencies, and our own Child Advocacy Center. Through our prevention program, we teach the Monique Burr Foundation's evidence-based and evidence-informed, Child Safety Matters curriculum. The curriculum is taught in 1st and 3rd grade classes in Clare and Gladwin Counties and provides universal strategies to better protect children, including five easy-to-remember Safety Rules: Know What's Up, Spot Red Flags, Make a Move, Talk it Up, and No Blame/No Shame. Our services are provided through our two standalone and one mobile site. Clare Regional Child Advocacy Center: this is our CAC site and is where we provide our forensic interviewing and victim advocacy services. Center for Hope and Healing (CHH): the CHH is our crisis counseling center. Service provided here includes Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) and soon will include Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapies. Northern Michigan Mobile Child Advocacy Center: better known as the mobile unit, our 40ft renovated motorhome grants us the opportunity to take forensic interviewing and victim advocacy services directly to our client family. This lessens the burden of long drives and the challenges of finding transportation. Fun fact, our mobile unit is one of only 33 across the nation and the only of it's kind in the Midwest.
