District Attorney Leads Drive Benefiting Children’s Advocacy Center

03 Feb District Attorney Leads Drive Benefiting Children’s Advocacy Center

Drive to Collect Items to Benefit the Children’s Advocacy Center

CRAIG, MAYES & ROGERS COUNTIES, Okla., January 30, 2014 –  The community is invited to join in a house warming drive to collect needed items as a way of celebrating the new facility for the Children’s Advocacy Center (CAC).

Holly Webb, Children’s Advocacy Center Executive Director says, “This will help the CAC continue to provide services to children suspected to be victims of abuse. We invite the community to our open house on February 10th from 4-6pm.”

Since 2001 the Children’s Advocacy Center has served children and families from Craig, Mayes and Rogers counties. Last year, alone, the agency provided services to 346 children.

The CAC’s mission is to provide a safe and child-friendly facility for coordinated intervention in child abuse cases. Among its many services the Center provides on-site medical exams and forensic interviews. There’s also mental health treatment and advocacy for victims of abuse and neglect.

In the week leading up to the Children’s Advocacy Center’s open house celebrating its new facility several area grocery stores are partnering with the District Attorney’s office to sponsor a drive for donations from the Center’s wish list.

So February 3 through February 9, 2014 people are encouraged to drop off donations at one of these locations:

Reasor’s in Catoosa
2500 N. Highway 66
Catoosa, OK 74015

Reasor’s in Claremore
1000 W. Will Rogers Blvd
Claremore, OK 74017

District Attorney’s Office
Mayes Count Courthouse, 2nd Floor
1 Court Pl
Pryor, OK 74361

Carter’s Foods in Vinita:
102 N Scraper St.
Vinita, OK 74301

The items will be delivered as a house warming gift from the community to the Children’s Advocacy Center at 4:15pm, Monday, February 10, 2014.

Children’s Advocacy Center
213 E. Patti Page Blvd.
Claremore, OK

Tours of the Center will also be available.

Here are items from the Children’s Advocacy Center’s “Wish List’ for those who would like to help:

Individual snacks
Drinks: bottles of water, juice boxes or cans of soda
Bright, washable craft paint
Paint brushes
Coloring books
Crayons
Colorful chalk
Stuffed animals and toys (new or very, gently, used)

Backpacks and school supplies including:
      pencils
      lined paper
      notebooks
      pocket folders
      crayons
      washable markers
      #2 pencils
      12” rulers
      glue
      glue sticks
      blunt scissors
      pointed scissors
      pens
      highlighters
      calculators
      compasses
      protractors

Diapers, Pull-ups, baby wipes
Paper towels
Toilet paper
Old magazines
White copy paper
Clothes or shoes sizes: Infants – 18-year-olds (new or gently used)