Tara Wingo

Child Advocacy Center: Protecting children, preventing abuse in Northeast Missouri

April 23, 2025 | By Heather Clemens, United Way of the Mark Twain Area

HANNIBAL, Mo. — April is Child Abuse Prevention Month. The Child Advocacy Center of Northeast Missouri has been partnering with community agencies since 2000. Child Advocacy Centers, or CACs, were created in 1985, and more than 1,000 of them operate in the United States. The Child Advocacy Center of Northeast Missouri is one of 15…