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Child Abuse Response and Evaluation (CARE)
Center The CARE Center-Child Abuse Response and Evaluation, Inc. is a non-profit organization with an innovative approach to the investigation and treatment of child sexual and physical abuse in Oklahoma County. The Center's goals are to minimize each child's trauma, to provide timely treatment and services, and to ensure the proper investigation of cases. The CARE Center team consists of administrative staff, law enforcement investigators, child protective service workers, therapists, assistant district attorneys, medical professionals, and innumerable volunteers.
The CARE Center was designed in order to house, not only law enforcement, but also child welfare workers, mental health and medical personnel and an assistant district attorney. Together they interview the children; not individually as in the past, but as a team, all-working for the good of the child. Through one-way mirrors between observation areas and interview rooms, all team members have the opportunity to observe the interview and have their questions answered because the interviewer (deemed most appropriate by the team) wears an ear bug similar to those worn by television newscasters. In addition to state-of-the-art interview rooms and offices, the CARE Center has a well-stocked playroom, a conference room for weekly case reviews and medical exam room. The cost to purchase, renovate and expand the Center was approximately $400,000. It was funded entirely by private donations. When the Center opened, it did so debt-free. Operating costs are funded through a mix of public and private funds. The CARE Center is governed by a 21-member board of directors, and employs a staff of nine full-time employees who oversee the day-to-day operations of the center, including administration, volunteer recruitment and training, forensic interviewers and case staffing. For more information regarding the CARE Center
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