ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC
908 Southland Avenue, Fort Worth, TX 76104 www.allianceforchildren.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: The mission of the Alliance for Children is to protect Tarrant County children from child abuse through teamed investigations, healing services, and community education.

Evaluation, intervention, evidence gathering & counseling for the benefit of abused children.

Counseling ProgramWe provided 26 group counseling sessions per week for children (grouped by age and gender) and their protective caregivers in English and Spanish. In order to best serve our clients we are housed in four locations throughout Tarrant County. In fiscal year 2019 we provided individual counseling services to over 600 victims of trauma. Our group conseling program served over 200 protective caregivers and over 250 children with confirmed cases of child sexual abuse, bringing our total number of adults and children served throughout the year to more than 2,500. The program offers a number of different modalities to serve clients. Our group counseling program, offered September through June, is a 16-week open-ended format utilizing trauma focused cognitive behavior therapy (TF-CBT), and evidenced based practice in the field of trauma. We also provided summer groups that consisted of art therapy as well as a group for adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Our individual counseling programs primarily consisted of parent/child interaction therapy, another evidenced based practice when working with children experiencing behavior challenges as well as TF-CBT for individuals. We were able to expand our individual modalities in 2019 and have incorporated eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, an evidenced based practice used to assist trauma victims in processing severe trauma, memories and beliefs as well as play therapy for our younger children served.

Forensic Interview ProgramThe forensic interview program is staffed by individuals specialized and highly trained regarding child development, memory, suggestibility, linguistics, dynamics of abuse, and question typology. Forensic interviews are investigative in nature and are conducted with children that have possibly experienced or witnesses abuse or a violent event. Our forensic interview program provided these highly complex investigative interviews with availability 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. In fiscal year 2019, more than 1,700 children received a forensic interview, where skilled interviewers talked with victims to determine if the child experienced or witnessed child abuse or a violent crime.

Family Advocate ProgramThe Family Advocate Program provides case management services to children and families affected by allegations of child abuse. In fiscal year 2019, more than 1,300 families received our family advocacy services. Family advocates helped families stabilize in many ways, such as guiding them through the complex and sometimes confusing investigative and court systems, providing short term financial assistance, assisting families in accessing community resources, referring families to appropriate counseling services and other key services that support families through the trauma of abuse. Our family advocate program also provided specialized healing services through our children's services advocate to further support and healing.

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