Team Investigations

Children and their families receive services from specially trained child abuse professionals. Our multidisciplinary team (MDT) facilitates a comprehensive, well defined, cooperative process that not only results in a more successful investigation and prosecution, but also, and more importantly, provides a better and less traumatic response to the child victim and the child’s family.

With the child victim and child’s family in mind, the primary goals of our MDT include:

• Elimination of duplicative efforts by professionals
• Protection of the child and the child’s family from further abuse and trauma
• Responsive, successful investigation and prosecution of alleged offenders
• Assurance of specialized therapeutic care to meet the needs of the child and family

A multidisciplinary team for response to child abuse allegations includes representation from the following:

• Law enforcement
• Child protective services
• Prosecution
• Mental health
• Medical
• Victim advocacy
• Children’s Advocacy Center staff