i) Members - Prosecuting Attorney's Office, Public Health, Hospital personnel, Michigan City Exchange Club, Mental Health, Social Service Agencies, Courts, Schools, Office of Family and Children

ii) Purpose - raise awareness of child abuse and neglect issues

iii) Activities - April events to focus on Child Abuse Prevention and Awareness

i) Members - Law enforcement members began attending meetings

ii) Purpose - Focus continued to be on raising awareness and encouraging reporting of abuse and neglect but law enforcement and Child Protective Services raised intervention concerns - Place to interview, adequate training for investigators, need for beepers and improved communication, need for a child-centered safe place to interview a child.

iii) Activities: continued events to raise awareness and exploration of incorporating so that CAAT could raise money to address needs.

i) Members - Membership remained constant with many members contributing more time to address prevention and intervention

ii) Purpose - Find a way to address identified concerns, needs and wants.

iii) Activities - United Way conducted a survey identifying Child Abuse and neglect as number one concern for the community. United Way director approached CAAT to ask how they were addressing concerns and offered to help. The Child Abuse Advisory Team decided to become a chartered council under Prevent Child Abuse Indiana. This began the first steps toward Incorporating as a not-for-profit agency. CAAT members visit Huntsville and see model Advocacy Center.

i) Members - same

ii) Purpose - Incorporate and build a center

iii) Activities - Child molester pleads guilty and turns his house over to the county who want to donate it for an Advocacy Center. The team filed for incorporation as the LaPorte County Child Abuse Prevention Council

i) Members - same

ii) Purpose - Build an Advocacy Center to focus on child abuse and neglect

iii) Activities - The LaPorte County Child Abuse Prevention Council is incorporated. Oprah Winfrey donated a challenge grant of $50,000 to build or remodel an Advocacy Center. The Agency hired a director. Community donates materials money for Center

i) Members - Board of Directors representing community - 1/3 Professional in Child Abuse, 1/3 business representative, 1/3 community representative

ii) Purpose - Open Center and work toward mission of "Prevent Child Abuse through prevention and intervention in LaPorte County"

iii) Activities - Center is built and named Dunebrook. Agency filed with state to Do Business as Dunebrook Prevent Child Abuse in 2001. Programs begin in April. Interviews are conducted at Dunebrook, programs begin, agencies meet at Dunebrook and quickly recognize focus of child abuse prevention and intervention

i) Members - Initial staff includes Director, Victim Advocate from Prosecutor's Office, Police Detectives from Michigan City and County Police. At one point during the mid 1990's Deputy Prosecuting attorney is appointed to join Victim Advocate Staff. Program Assistant and administrative assistant/receptionist are hired. Program staff are added as programs develop. Law enforcement and prosecutor's staff move out by 1998/1999.

ii) Purpose - Achieve mission

iii) Activities - In the beginning interviews are conducted at Dunebrook reaching over 100 at the peak. Initial programs are: Nurturing Parenting, Body Safety in the schools, Adult Survivor's group, Parents Against Child Abuse Support Group. Prevention education continues through billboard and radio campaigns. Many groups meet at Dunebrook: CAAT, Child Protection Team, Step Ahead and others. By the end of the 90's programs, collaborations and funding sources have expanded. Healthy Families is added in the mid 90's as a collaboration with Barker Woods Enrichment Center. Even Start collaboration developed for Healthy Families Program which grows to capacity by the end of the 1990's. Interviews dwindle. Nurturing Program grows generating waiting lists.

i) Members: Staff includes full and part time people located at Dunebrook and at school sites. Collaborations broaden both within LaPorte County and throughout Indiana. Board of Directors continues governance.

ii) Purpose - "Prevent Child Abuse" mission expands beyond LaPorte County

iii) Activities - Michigan City Area Schools' Safe Harbor After School program requests parenting classes for after school program. Healthy Families is unable to serve people in need beyond and within target population. U.S. Department of Education designates Dunebrook as the Indiana Parent Information Center in Indiana. This designation plus local, state and national funding enables Dunebrook to expand Nurturing Programs into schools and other sites in LaPorte County, provide training support for developing Nurturing Program sites in Indiana, add Parents As Teachers curriculum to the Healthy Families LaPorte County Program, add a Parents As Teachers (PAT) program at Dunebrook, support the Hammond PAT program and develop new PAT programs in Hanover and Crown Point in collaboration with St. Anthony's Medical Center in Crown Point, provided support to develop PAT programs through out Indiana. Dunebrook collaborates with Prevent Child Abuse Indiana to develop the Touchpoints Curriculum in Indiana, is developing First Day and other projects to model for the state. Through a request from the Indiana State Health Department, Dunebrook provides the state Prenatal Substance Use Prevention Program to LaPorte County residents