Welcome to The Tillamook County Child Advocacy Center
A place of Hope and Healing
Established in 2024 as a non-profit, The Tillamook County Child Advocacy Center was designed to minimize trauma for children when there are concerns of abuse in Tillamook County. The Tillamook County Child Advocacy is a trauma-informed, child-friendly environment that helps children feel safe and comfortable.
The Tillamook County Child Advocacy Center is a Children’s Advocacy Center that is providing services to Tillamook County on the northwestern Oregon Coast. In 2024, approximately 100 children are referred to the center, usually by Child Protective Services, law enforcement, or medical providers for evaluation because of suspected sexual abuse, physical abuse, serious neglect, exposure to drug endangerment, or exposure to domestic violence.
Vision & Mission
Our Vision is a caring community, free of child abuse, where everyone is invested in raising healthy children.
Our Mission is to provide trauma informed compassionate interviewing through prevention, assessment, treatment and support for children and families who may have been impacted by child abuse.
Our Story
We’re built on dreams of a community and nearly two decades of hard work and dreaming. With the vision developed over time through the MDT (Multidisciplinary Team) of Tillamook County, we started out with training to utilize in the field, to recorded interviews in a tiny space, to an assessment center with child friendly rooms and we’re heading in an even better direction.
Our Mission. Our Model.
Our mission is to compassionately assess and provide support to children who have, or potential have, experienced abused or neglect. We strive to minimize added trauma to these children by working collaboratively with area law enforcement, the DA’s office, Child Protective Services, mental health agencies, and Crime Victim Services. The assessments we provide follow a medical model that involves both a complete medical exam, along with a comprehensive forensic interview in a comfortable, child-friendly setting.
Our building is designed to minimize trauma to the child and help make the investigation, treatment, and follow-up process less frightening and more successful for the child and the child’s family.
Where indicated, referrals to Trauma Recovery Services provides after-assessment behavioral health support for children, non-offending care providers, and adult survivors of abuse. Referrals are provided to licensed providers at community partners of The CAC to utilize proven evidence-based practices, psychosocial education, and groups to support individuals on their healing journey.
In addition, The Tillamook County Child Advocacy Center works to provide a wide variety of age-appropriate abuse prevention and education programs throughout the community and in schools. Our intent is to create an arc of education that informs and empowers every age group from preschoolers to adults.
