How Does it Work

Children’s Center of Southwest Missouri facilitates the following services:

  • Coordinated interviews and investigations with all agencies and professionals working as a multidisciplinary team
  • Evidence gathering, verbal testimony, medical documentation, and other relevant evidence necessary for criminal prosecution and custody proceedings
  • Swifter prosecution of child abuse cases
  • Preparing child victims and their non-offending family members for the criminal justice process
  • Referrals for mental health services which can help the healing process and help protect children from further victimization
  • Multidisciplinary professional training in all areas of child abuse
  • Child abuse education and prevention services