- Advocacy: Meeting families and children where they are at in the emotional and mental process of going through a child abuse investigation. It also lets our staff take on the weight of finding any extra needed resources and the ability to be a communications liaison between the family and the investigators.
- Forensic Interviews: This service allows children to be interviewed in a non-invasive, neutral and fact-finding way rather than being forced to answer direct questions by investigators.
- Sexual and Physical Assault Medical Exams: More than 100 children each year receive medical exams at Grandma’s House. All exams are head to toe – as long as the child gives our nurses permission – and are performed by RNs trained in pediatric trauma – Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE)
- Trauma Focused Therapy: All children seen at Grandma’s House are screened for trauma. Because children are so resilient, counseling sometimes is not needed. However, if a child does share that she or he is struggling and needs the assistance of therapy, we are able to see them at whichever location they were initially seen in.
- Prevention: We have a Community Development Coordinator who specializes in sharing child abuse education & awareness to individuals, organizations, academic leadership, and more. Our Prevention and Education Coordinator takes on the task of teaching body safety and basic prevention techniques to children from pre-K to high school seniors. We also have a SANE nurse as our Clinical Coordinator who helps educate the medical community on the importance of our exams and how they are different than what a child would receive at the ER or a pediatrician’s office. Our Program Coordinator helps educate law enforcement and other agencies on the gift a children’s advocacy offers to an investigation.