Overview
The Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children focuses on providing services to abused and neglected children and their families at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
State-of-the-art diagnostic, treatment and training programs, and cutting-edge research in the field of child sexual abuse, child physical abuse, child neglect and parenting are being conducted.
The Child Advocacy Center (CAC) is the front door through which most of the 2,000 plus children evaluated from abuse and neglect each year at Cincinnati Children's enter the Mayerson Center.
The Child Advocacy Center is the new home for the Child Abuse team, which consists of staff from Emergency Medicine and Social Services. The Center is housed on the fifth floor of the Albert B. Sabin Education Center.
Our target populations include all children in the multi-county area surrounding Cincinnati who have been victims of child abuse or who are at risk.
Programs are being established for families who require assistance with parenting skills and nurturing. Outcome research is a priority and will be used to critically examine all program components for effectiveness and improvements.
The center's vision is to assure safe, healthy and nurturing families and communities where all children can reach their full potential.
Our mission is to be the national leader and resource in the development and validation of best practices for the evaluation, treatment and prevention of child maltreatment.
Programs developed by the center will span the scale from individual therapy for abused children to community public health interventions for the promotion of healthy parenting and prevention of child abuse.
