Multidisciplinary Team
Enhance collaboration among professionals from child protection, law enforcement, legal, medical, and mental health systems.
(MDT)
Multidisciplinary Team
The purpose of a Multiple Disciplinary team is to enhance collaboration among professionals from child protection, law enforcement, legal, medical, and mental health systems. In the neutral setting of the CAC, team members can collaborate on strategies that will assist investigators and prosecutors without creating further trauma for the child. This approach significantly increases the likelihood of a successful outcome in the judicial system and long-term healing for the crime victims.
Our
Professionals
The Anna Crawford Children’s Center MDT consists of professionals from:
- Law enforcement investigators from Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office, City of Canton Police, City of Holly Springs Police, City of Ballground Police , City of Woodstock Police, and Cherokee County School Police
- Prosecutors from the Cherokee County District Attorney’s Office
Child protective service workers from Cherokee Department of Family and Children Services - Medical professionals from Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and LiveSafe
- Mental Health Professionals and Forensic Interviewers from the Anna Crawford Children’s Center
- Victim Advocates from Cherokee District Attorney’s Office and the Anna Crawford Children’s Center
- Court Appointed Special Advocates from Cherokee CASA.
CAC
Multidisciplinary Team
The CAC multidisciplinary team collaborates to:
- Coordinate investigations
- Limit, when possible, the number of times each child is interviewed
- Provide comfortable, child-friendly settings for investigative, forensic interviews
- Reduce the child victims’ travel to numerous investigative agencies
- Coordinate medical and mental health services
- Increase public awareness about the incidence and impact of child abuse.