Did you know that you can help support the mission of the Center by requesting a "I Care About Kids" license plate the next time you update the tags for your automobile?  It's true!  A portion of your fees go to the Child Victims’ Trust Fund (Click here to learn more about the Child Victims’ Trust Fund) and helps provide funding to support services to victims of child sexual abuse in Kentucky.  BRACAC receives those funds to help support medical examinations to children living in the ten counties of the Barren River Area Development District (FY10), so your funding does return to serve children right here in your community.

Just how many children need support? 

 More than 3.5 million reports of child abuse and neglect were made in the United States in 2007.  An estimated 794,000 children were victims of maltreatment with a rate of victimization of 10.6 per 1,000 children in the population.   7.6% of those reports were due to allegations or concerns of sexual abuse.   That is more than 60,000 children.  (Source:  US Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Children’s Bureau (2007).

 The Barren River Area Child Advocacy Center provides services to 400-500 children every year.  Roughly 125 of those children will receive specialized medical examinations.

 Physical abuse typically presents as unusual or suspicious bruises, broken bones or burns that are atypical or happen repeatedly, or injuries inconsistent with the reported history.   Child sexual abuse, however, can present a very different and challenging problem for the primary care physician.  The Center is there to provide children with the special attention and medical care they need.  

 The Barren River Area Child Advocacy Center provides all services – including comprehensive child sexual abuse medical examinations – at no expense to a child’s family.  

 Child sexual abuse medical examinations are made available, in part, by a grant from the Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation Prevention Board and the Child Victims’ Trust Fund.