Child Sexual Assault & Trauma

The rate of children experiencing sexual assault and trauma before they reach adulthood is alarming, making sexually based offenses one of the most common threats to a child's health.

The damage sexual assault can have on the mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual health of a child can lead to incalculable life consequences. And, it is imperative that child victims of sexual assault and trauma have the necessary resources, information, and support systems in place to help them heal and to move forward in life with their dignity intact.

MC6 Child Sexual Assault and Trauma Advocates are trained and certified in victim advocacy and crisis intervention.

The advocate can also access resources to help in a child's recovery. It is our hope that by providing child sexual assault victims with the means to overcome this health epidemic.

As survivors, children will become resilient, and awe-aspiring people who can do what they set out to do in life no matter the struggles along the way. 

Child Abuse & Neglect

Nearly 3 million cases of child abuse and neglect are reported each year and 1 million of these are substantiated.  The trauma of child abuse and neglect leaves children mentally, physically, and emotionally scarred.  For some children, the scars are short-lived.  But for others, these scars will last a lifetime. 

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Children need people who are willing to stand in the gap and fight to defend and protect their rights to live a life free from harm and fear of harm. 

Children also need someone in their corner who will work with them, their families, and agencies to blunt the epidemic of abuse and neglect to enable them to heal and live their best lives. 

MC6 Child Abuse and Neglect Advocates are trained in child abuse prevention and crisis intervention.  As child abuse and neglect advocates, they will bring their knowledge, skills, abilities, and resources to bear to keep children safe. 

Ultimately, it is our goal to do what we can as an organization to help parents, caregivers, and all stakeholders to change and rethink disciplinary approaches and practices to ensure children are protected and have the opportunity to grow up in a healthy, happy, safe, and secure home environment.

Child Complex Investigation Services

Working Together to Safeguard Children. Complex abuse occurs both as part of a network of abuse across a family or community, and within institutions such as residential homes, places of worship, youth sports, or schools. Such abuse is profoundly traumatic for the children involved. Its investigation is time-consuming and requires specialist skills from police, advocates, and social work staff.

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Complex abuse investigations can encompass three possible groups;

1. reporting abuse on children (current);

2. reporting of childhood abuse by adults; and

3. reporting abuse on adults (current).

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Complex abuse is defined by MC6 as “abuse involving one or more abusers and a number of related or non-related abused children and young people. The abusers concerned may be acting in concert to abuse children, sometimes acting in isolation, or maybe using an institutional framework or position of authority to recruit children for abuse." Some investigations become extremely complex because of the number of places and people involved, and the period of abuse. The complexity is heightened, as in historical cases, where the alleged victims are no longer living in the settings where the incidents occurred or where the alleged perpetrators are no longer linked to the setting or employment role.

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Each investigation of complex abuse will be different, according to the characteristics of each situation and the scale and complexity of the investigation. Each complex abuse investigation requires thorough planning, good inter-agency working, and attention to the welfare need of the child victims or adult survivors involved