No-cost therapeutic counseling for children and teens (boys and girls, ages 4* to 17)who have been the victim of sexual abuse. Through a wide range of techniques from play therapy, art therapy, and cognitive behavioral therapy in individual, group, and family therapy sessions children experience healing and find a safe place to talk about the abuses they have suffered.

Some of the many goals of the Victims Services Program include teaching children's non-offending parents how to better protect their children from harm in the future.

Some of the teenagers in the victims services program benefit from group therapy where they are able to learn that they are not alone, that other teens have experienced the same things that they have experienced.

Services are available in Spanish as well as English.

*Call 770.532.6530 if you have a child younger than age 4.

Pathfinder is about turning lives around. It is about working with children who have sexual behavior problems--many of whom have been victimized themselves--and helping them to get back on track in life.

Pathfinder works to make sure the community is safe by ensuring that children who have engaged in inappropriate sexual behaviors get the help they need. The teenagers with which Pathfinder works have been adjudicated.

The program works on empathy, teaching children to take responsibility for their actions. Restitution is one of the expected goals of the program.

When children and teens in the program have underlying trauma issues, the program also addresses that trauma.

Because both Pathfinder and Victims Services are housed at the Children's Center for Hope & Healing, Pathfinder is especially well-situated to work with families where inter-familial, "child-on-child" abuse has occured. Pathfinder is able to serve the needs of all the children and--if appropriate--work on family reunification.

Services are available in Spanish as well as English.

Women’s Services works with women who have survived child sexual abuse. The program strives to assist women in making the transition from victim to survivor, decreasing their sense of social isolation, increasing their sense of self-worth and value, increasing their sense of hope, and increasing their survival skills.

Often--though not always--these women are the mothers or grandmothers of the children we see in our Victims' Services Program. Helping women whose children are in the Victims Services program not only helps the adult survivor--a worthy goal in and of itself--but also helps that woman to be able to support her own child in recovering from trauma. It also decreases the risk that her child will be abused in the future.

Any woman in the community who is an adult survivor of sexual abuse may participate in our program. Contact our office for more information.

Services are available in Spanish as well as English.