PennCAC brings together Children’s Advocacy Centers and multidisciplinary teams across Pennsylvania—strengthening leadership, aligning response, and ensuring children receive coordinated care.
Responding to child abuse isn’t the job of just one agency—and the best response depends on many different agencies working together.
That coordination doesn’t happen on its own.
PennCAC strongly advocates for a coordinated response to child abuse for cases across Pennsylvania—bringing Children’s Advocacy Centers and multidisciplinary teams into alignment so the response to child abuse is consistent, coordinated, and effective.
PennCAC works behind the scenes to make MDT collaboration possible and effective.
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At the center of this work are multidisciplinary teams (MDTs)—groups of professionals who come together to respond to child abuse as a coordinated unit.
PennCAC helps ensure those teams don’t just exist—but function effectively.
An MDT brings together professionals from different agencies to coordinate the response to child abuse.
PennCAC connects professionals to trusted, evidence-informed resources that support effective collaboration and decision-making across MDTs.
PennCAC supports CACs and MDTs in building the capacity needed to manage complexity, strengthen collaboration, and sustain long-term impact.
We work with CAC leaders to strengthen decision-making, team management, and strategic direction.
We help improve workflows, communication, and coordination across agencies and teams.
We bring leaders together to share knowledge, address challenges, and align around best practices.
We support long-term planning to ensure CACs can continue serving their communities effectively.
PennCAC’s role goes beyond individual teams.
We strengthen the system as a whole—so no matter where a child lives, they can access a coordinated, effective response.
This means:
