Organizations Filed Purposes:
Mountain Child Advocacy Center seeks to identify, respond to, and treat child abuse and neglect in Buncombe County; to advocate for victims and to educate and empower the public, protect children and reduce trauma through a coordinated community effort.
Mountain Child Advocacy Center seeks to identify, respond to, and treat child abuse and neglect in Buncombe County. See page 2 for full mission statement.
After achieving national accreditation as a Child Advocacy Center in January 2017, Mountain Child Advocacy Center continues to increase services to child abuse victims and their families. -Child Abuse Prevention Education: The Mountain CAC child abuse prevention education program is an evidence-based, trauma-informed approach that aims to help kids understand boundaries, identify a safety network of adults, understand what abuse is and know that it is never the child's fault. We present safety lessons to 8,000 - 10,000 students each year, and prior to the closing of schools presented to 6,447, 97% of whom demonstrated through post-tests an increase in knowledge. The presentations also resulted in 87 disclosures of child abuse. Triple P Parenting is our main approach when working with adults because it is an intervention with the main goal of increasing knowledge, skills, and confidence of parents to reduce the prevalence of mental health, emotional, and behavioral problems in children and adolescents. The program is specifically tailored for at-risk children and parents. Before the pandemic shutdown, Mountain CAC's Community Educator presented training to 557 adults in the community, Darkness to Light's, Stewards of Children and Recognizing and Reporting Abuse are curriculums that teach adults how to recognize and appropriately respond to child abuse victims.
Advocacy Program: 372 new clients, 314 children and 58 adults received advocacy services in FY1920. The Family Advocate is a Master's level professional who serves the child victim and non- offending family members to navigate the process of a child abuse investigation and links the child and family to other services. The Family Advocate works with 350-400 cases a year with varying degrees of intensity. Mountain CAC treats some of the toughest cases in the region, and our Family Advocate at times operates as a triage nurse, making important therapy decisions and referrals. The Family Advocates is a reassuring and knowledgeable guide providing linkage to resources and supports. This includes medical and legal needs, as well as housing, food assistance, and safety resources. The Family represents the child victim through the Multidisciplinary Team case reviews and keeps the family updated on investigative and court progress.
Crisis Intervention /Counseling: Quickly responding to new COVID-19 restrictions, Mountain CAC was able, almost without interruption, to continue treatment via tele-conferencing. Our case load was barely impacted as trauma-informed, evidence-based treatment was provided to 225 children. 204 of those children were new cases, receiving treatment in 2,442 therapeutic appointments, assessments or sessions. Additionally, 12 adults, parents/caregivers and/or survivors of child abuse, received treatment, enabling them to be healthier support for their children's healing. Each Mountain CAC Therapist is rostered to provide Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behavior Therapy (TF-CBT), the recognized best-practice, evidence-based treatment for child abuse victims. Mountain CAC is the only regional agency that can also offer six additional evidence-based modalities of treatment: CPT - Cognitive Processing; ART - Accelerated Response; AF-CBT - Alternative Family- Cognitive Behavior Therapy; PCIT - Parent Child Interactive Therapy; and CPP - Child Parent Psychotherapy, and treatment for children with Problematic Sexualized Behaviors. Three therapies are also made available in Spanish, TF-CBT, AF-CBT, and CPP.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
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| Geoffrey Sidoli | Executive Director | 40 | $89,966 |
| Callie Stingel | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Hannah Marshall | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Tonja Schroder Rn | Board Member | 0.25 | $0 |
| Michelle Russell | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Kim Plemmons | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Laurin Yoder | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Latrella Mcelrath | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Christine Malloy | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Lynn Kieffer | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Leslie Green | Board Member | 3 | $0 |
| Shelia Elingburg | Board Member | 3 | $0 |
| Gregg Dixon | Board Member | 0.25 | $0 |
| Brian Chandler | Board Member | 0.25 | $0 |
| Leslie Hansen | Board Member | 3 | $0 |
| Glenda Bailey | Board Member | 2 | $0 |
| Debby Burchfield | Secretary | 2 | $0 |
| Kellye Bradshaw | Treasurer | 4 | $0 |
| Doug Piercy | Vice Chair | 4 | $0 |
| William Bryan Boone | Chair | 4 | $0 |
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