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NH Child Advocacy Centers

Seeking justice for child victims of abuse while supporting children and their families on a sustainable path to heal, survive and thrive.

PROMOTING JUSTICE – HOPE – HEALING

A Child’s CAC Visit

As a parent or caregiver KNOW what to expect during your visit and how to prepare your child.

Professional Training 

The GSCA offers expert training for professionals in New Hampshire.

Healing Services 

Our Behavioral Health Services offers evidence-based, trauma-informed assessment and treatment services to support healing following the disclosure.

Find Your Center

There is a Child Advocacy Center in every county of New Hampshire.

Belknap County

Located in Laconia

Carroll County

Located in Wolfeboro

Cheshire County

Located in Keene

Coos County

Located in Lancaster

Grafton-Sullivan Counties

Located in Lebanon, Claremont, Littleton & Plymouth

Merrimack County

Located in Concord

Rockingham County

Located in Portsmouth and Derry

Strafford County

Located in Dover

What We Do and Why

Why: Our Motivation

Child Advocacy Center team members remain dedicated to the tireless fight to assure that children and their families have a victim- centered experience in a safe and responsive place to move beyond their trauma to Heal, Survive and Thrive.

How: What We Do

Child Advocacy Centers partner with multiple public, private, state, county and local organizations to provide a collaborative, coordinated systematic response to child abuse investigations and subsequent supports for child victims and their families. Our CACs are intentionally designed to be child/family friendly, trauma informed, victim centered, neutral settings for joint investigations and forensic interviews of child victims of crime involving sexual abuse, felony level physical abuse, and child witnesses to violence such as a homicide or a serious domestic assault.

Impact: Positive Outcomes for Kids

We seek justice for child victims while supporting children and their families on a sustainable path to healing.

Children referred to CACs in 2024

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attendance rate for children & caregivers at clinical appointments

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incidents of child abuse reported before 18 years old

Total contacts with victims & caregivers

How We’ve Been Able to Help

“Everyone was friendly and put us at ease. We were given many opportunities to ask questions and were treated with great respect.”

Caregiver of a child serviced by a CAC