Child Abuse Response
Providing forensic interviews, advocacy services, & medical exams
Events
Supporting our mission through signature fundraising events
About Us
Offering some history & information about
our organization
What We Do
The Crawford Child Advocacy Center is the only agency in Larimer and Jackson Counties that is accredited by the National Children’s Alliance.
Our work is to prevent child maltreatment–primarily physical and sexual abuse–and, when it cannot be prevented, to provide law enforcement and caseworkers with forensic services to help stop perpetrators and to protect and support victims and their families.
Forensic Services
We provide a safe and comfortable space for children who are involved in current child abuse investigations without the need to tell the details of their abuse more than once. When law enforcement and child protection agencies have an open child abuse investigation, they turn to us to perform specialized forensic interviews. When families come to our facility, our Family Advocates will meet with child victims’ non-offending caregivers to provide resources to begin their next step of healing. To learn more, please visit our Forensic Services page.
Child Abuse Prevention
The Crawford Child Advocacy Center also offers child abuse prevention training. We provide an extensive K-5 curriculum to teach children about general safety rules and how to recognize, refuse, and report unsafe and unwanted touches. We also provide a child abuse prevention programs to adults who want to learn to recognize and react responsibly to risks of child abuse. To learn more about prevention, please visit our Abuse Prevention for Adults or Abuse Prevention for Kids pages.
Why it Matters
Child abuse and molestation happen in our community more often than you may realize.
- One in 10 children will be a victim of sexual abuse before age 18.
- More than 90% of sexually abused children know the offender. Most perpetrators are family members.
- In 2023 we conducted 348 forensic interviews and provided advocacy services to 921 non-offending caregivers and family members.
- In 2022, the Department of Human Services received over 2,400 reports of child abuse and neglect in Larimer County alone.
- The Center for Disease Control estimates that child maltreatment victims who don’t receive intervention or care will cost a community nearly $300,000 each (2024 dollars) in additional physical and mental healthcare costs, social services support, and lost productivity.
For the first time, The Swimsuit Lesson, an internationally popular children’s book by Jon Holsten that helps protect children from sexual predators, is available in Spanish!
Abuse Prevention Training
The Crawford Child Advocacy Center strives to prevent the physical and sexual abuse of children in Northern Colorado. We teach kids and adults to recognize and respond to unsafe situations and behaviors.
Learn more about how to prevent child abuse:
You Can Help!
There are a number of ways you can support our work. In addition to monetary donations, we always welcome paper products (paper towels, copy paper, facial and bathroom tissue, etc.), packaged snacks for the kids who come to the Center, and gas or grocery gift cards to help victims and their families.
We also welcome volunteers for our fundraising events and tax refund donations. Thank you!
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Location
The Crawford CAC is located in a 130-year-old redbrick farmhouse on the west side of Timberline Road, just north of the Kechter intersection. Parking is available on-site. The ADA accessible entrance and parking spot are located on the west side of the building.
