| In addition to the professional staff and
volunteers of the Dallas Children's Advocacy Center our
team includes professionals from the following:
Law Enforcement Agencies in Dallas County
Texas Department of Family and Protective Services: Child
Protective Services (CPS)
The Child Protective Services Division investigates
reports of abuse and neglect of children. It also:
- provides services to children and families in their
own homes;
- contracts with other agencies to provide clients with
specialized services;
- places children in foster care;
- provides services to help youth in foster care make
the transition to adulthood; and
- places children in adoptive homes.
Dallas
County District Attorney’s Office
The Dallas County District Attorney’s Office
Child Abuse Division is comprised of ten prosecutors, six
investigators, a child abuse liaison, a child abuse victim’s
assistant, division secretary, and two part-time child care
providers for the child witness waiting room.
The Child Abuse Division primarily handles felony child
abuse cases involving sexual abuse of victims who were under
the age of 14 at the time of the offense, injury and death
of children under the age of 7 at the time of the offense,
and serious bodily injury of children under the age of 14
at the time of the offense. The division will also handle
cases involving children under 17 years at the time of the
offense if the alleged perpetrator is a member of law enforcement,
public official, teacher, day care provider, minister or
other individuals involved in a “authoritative”
role or as other special circumstances dictate.
Children’s
Medical Center of Dallas
Children's is licensed for 406 beds, including
61 critical care beds; the hospital also has more than 50
outpatient clinics and a state-of-the-art emergency center
designed specifially for children with the only designated
pediatric Level I trauma center in the region.
The
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas:
Department of Pediatrics
Our educational activities range in scope from
introducing pediatric illness and pathophysiology in the
pre-clinical years of medical school, to the required pediatric
clerkship and elective fourth year rotations for medical
students, to residency training in general pediatrics, to
subspecialty training in neonatology, pediatric critical
care medicine, and sports medicine, and to lifelong learning
opportunities for both the academic and private practice
medical communities.
Where researchers seek knowledge fundamental to the treatment
and prevention of disease. Where physicians, scientists
and other health-care professionals are trained. Where state-of-the-art,
compassionate medical care is delivered.
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