Kristen French Advocacy Centre

The Kristen French Child Advocacy Centre provides a safe place to help, heal, and end child abuse for Niagara’s children and youth who have experienced alleged physical or sexual abuse, neglect, become the targets of internet luring or were an unwilling witness to violence. Our environment is child-focused and private,  providing a safe and non-threatening place for children and youth to disclose their experience of abuse to specially trained teams from the Niagara Regional Police Service and Family and Children’s Services Niagara who respectively, investigate to determine criminal charges and protection needs. Mental health professionals from Family Counselling Centre Niagara provide much needed follow-up counselling support at no cost and without a wait list. To further support kids on their healing journey, we also provide therapeutic afterschool programs featuring art, yoga and more, school presentations designed to decrease kids’ vulnerability to victimization, and Camp Acorn, Niagara’s first trauma-informed day camp.