Baltimore Child Abuse Center

Baltimore Child Abuse Center (BCAC) is a Comprehensive Violence Intervention and Prevention Center focused on child abuse issues, elder justice issues, urban gun violence, and domestic violence. As an entity of Lifebrigde Health, BCAC specializes in hospital based violence intervention.Its primary activities focus on intervention when abuse is reported, treatment to aid in the healing of survivors and their families, education around recognizing, preventing and reporting suspicions of abuse, and advocacy at the local, state, and national levels. BCAC’s comprehensive services in these areas address the immediate and long-term challenges that child sexual abuse poses to the Baltimore region.BCAC’s primary purpose is to give child victims of abuse a voice. Finding out what exactly happened to a child who alleges sexual abuse is a complex process involving multiple investigatory agencies. BCAC simplifies this process by providing a single point of contact with the child and provides all reported victims of child sexual abuse in Baltimore and their non-offending caretakers with comprehensive forensic interviews, medical treatment, and mental health treatment with a goal of preventing future abuse.BCAC is a private, non-profit 501(c)3 children’s advocacy center, the oldest children’s advocacy center in Maryland and the only one not operating as a local, government-funded agency. As a chartered, accredited member of the national Children’s Alliance and the Maryland Children’s Alliance, BCAC serves approximately 1,100 children and their families every year.