About the Children’s Advocacy Center
The Children’s Advocacy Center (CAC) of Bastrop, Lee and Fayette Counties is where the cycle of abuse stops and healing begins.
It is a child-friendly facility where child victims of abuse may be interviewed, undergo medical evaluations and receive therapy. In addition, the Center provides extensive training for protective caretakers and child abuse and neglect education to the communities we serve.
We serve children ages 17 and under who are victims or at risk of abuse, child witnesses of violent crime, non-offending family members and at-risk children and families. We are a neutral, child friendly organization that facilitates a multidisciplinary team approach to the investigation, prosecution, intervention and treatment of child abuse.
The CAC is currently interviewing for 4 internship spots with our family advocacy program.
The Children’s Advocacy Center serving Bastrop, Lee, and Fayette counties works to provide the best opportunities for our interns. Our internship program caters to various undergraduate degrees such as criminal justice, psychology, social work, child/family development, sociology, and applied sociology and Masters degrees in social work and professional counseling. Family Advocate intern’s tasks entails a variety of learning opportunities such as working with caretakers and families during crisis during forensic interviews, case management, providing and helping families locate resources, groups (therapeutic, parenting, coping skills and more), and working closely with our multidisciplinary teams such as law enforcement and child protective services for better wrap around services.
Professional counseling and social work students have weekly supervision with our on staff LPC-S and LMSW. All family advocate interns are also engaged in weekly supervision with their task supervisor and also in mid and final semester reviews. We ask that interns spend a minimum of 16 hours a week at the CAC. Internships are completed per semester, are available spring, summer, and fall semesters and the amount of semesters and hours completed with the CAC are catered to each individual’s needs.
Applicants can fill out and return the CAC Intern Application and other requested forms to sarah.moreno@cacbastrop.org.
If there are any questions or concerns students are welcome to contact Sarah directly at sarah.moreno@cacbastrop or at 512-321-6161 ext 212.
