Kristen French Child Advocacy Centre Niagara

History: Opened on September 16th, 2008 the Kristen French CACN is a registered charitable organization that serves Niagara’s 12 municipalities helping children and families cope with the life altering impacts of child abuse. The renaming of the Child Advocacy Centre Niagara in 2014 to the Kristen French Child Advocacy Centre Niagara pays tribute to the memory of Kristen, whose story represents one of the most horrendous forms of abuse against a young person our community has ever seen. Mission: To serve children in the Niagara Region who have been impacted by abuse Vision: To engage the community in a child abuse prevention, awareness and response strategy

The Kristen French CACN provides a safe place to help, heal, end child abuse for Niagara’s children and youth who have experienced alleged physical abuse, sexual abuse, become the targets of internet luring, or were the unwilling witness of violence. The environment is child-focused and private, providing a safe and non-threatening place for children and youth to disclose their experience of abuse to specially trained teams from the Niagara Regional Police Service and Family and Children’s Services Niagara who respectively, investigate to determine criminal charges and protection needs. Mental health professionals from Family Counselling Centre Niagara provide much needed follow-up counselling support at no cost and without a wait list.