About Us
CARE Center is the Tri-County’s first Children’s Advocacy Center (CAC), and Virginia’s eighteenth CAC. The CAC is a board-governed 501(c)3 nonprofit founded on a multidisciplinary team (MDT) approach to provide child victim-centered services to Virginia’s children of Buchanan, Russell, and Tazewell counties. In 2018, CARE Center was incorporated, received nonprofit status, and was brought from vision to reality. Needing a location to house the tri-counties’ first CAC, the task was set to find the right location to serve children. After viewing several proposed sites, CARE Center’s Executive Director and Director of Operations met with and presented CARE Center as a mission outreach to one of Tazewell county’s most respected churches. From that moment, everything quickly fell into place and an agreement was made. The church’s weathering, unoccupied parsonage would officially become a center for serving abused children. The spiritual vision was jointly recognized as an answer to prayer.
Our Home
On January 1, 2019, after approximately five months of remodeling, CARE Center opened its doors to serve the children of Buchanan, Russell, and Tazewell counties. Dedicated to B. Ray Thompson, the two-story children’s advocacy center presents a serene and welcoming atmosphere to both children and non-offending caregivers alike. CARE Center showcases a beautiful greeting room, family room, top-notch interview room, state-of-the-art MDT observation room, two board rooms, and administrative suites. CARE Center was designed with the child in mind.
Mission
The mission of CARE Center shall be to prevent and/or reduce the incidence and trauma of child maltreatment, to provide support to families through education, and to be a voice for children in court through trained advocates.
Vision
It is CARE Center’s vision to serve every abused child within the three Virginia counties of Buchanan, Russell, and Tazewell, by ever-striving to implement research-based best-practices in services provided, while helping facilitate healing and promoting carefree lives, free of physical assault and sexual abuse.