REDUCING THE TRAUMA OF CHILD ABUSE

When a child is referred to us by law enforcement or the Department of Health and Human Services, we provide legally sound, non-leading and neutral interviews conducted by a highly trained interviewer who has knowledge of the child’s development and emotional stage. We use an unbiased approach to seek the truth and to support fair decision-making in the criminal and child protective services system. The forensic interviewer records an interview with the child while one-on-one, while being monitored from another room. The multidisciplinary investigation team meets in the observation room, unseen by the child. This approach dramatically reduces the number of times the child has to tell their story, therefore reducing the trauma to the child.