HOUGHTON, MI— The Keweenaw Chamber of Commerce is holding a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Houghton Keweenaw Child Advocacy Center this week.
The center aims to support children who are victims of sexual assault and physical abuse.
Michael Babcock is the Director of Communications and Relations for Copper Shores Community Health Foundation. He says the CAC will provide such services as forensic interviews, emotional support, and legal information.
Babcock says the CAC is a vital part of child abuse investigations.
“What a child advocacy-centered center does is, it brings together a multi-disciplinary team of professionals that really help a child have to go through the trauma they already went through in as comforting and meaningful and as effective way as possible.”
The center is the first in the Upper Peninsula to be certified by the National Children’s Alliance.
The ribbon-cutting will be held Thursday at 11:30 a.m. More information is at www.coppershores.org.
