community advocacy center

Public Education and Community Center

Dunebrook makes it's facilities available to numerous community organizations, including United Way, Step Ahead, First Steps, Child Fatality Review Team, Child Protection Team, Healthy Communities, Literacy Council, Tobacco Coalition, La Leche League, and other child service-related groups.

For public service, public information and awareness, Dunebrook has a Speaker's Bureau (Staff and Board Members) available for presentations, radio and television programs, fairs , and tours. Topics our Bureau can present include:

Child Abuse and Neglect Facts and Prevention
Substance Abuse/Use
Shaken Infant Syndrome
Child Development
Child Safety
Parenting Skills
Body Safety (for children K-5th Grades)

Dunebrook also has a resource library with information on a wide variety of topics, such as: education, parenting, financial planning, safety, child development and health. The many books, videos, kits, pamphlets, etc. are available for loan to the public. For a complete list of resources click here.

Advocacy Center

Dunebrook is available to law enforcement and Child Protective Services for interviewing child abuse victims. The homelike, child-friendly environment is safe and comfortable while offering discreet monitoring and recording capabilities.

Dunebrook sought and received funding to send a total of 18 child abuse professionals to the Finding Words Indiana child forensic interview training since October of 2003.

Finding Words Indiana is a course offered by the Indiana Child Advocacy Centers Coalition in collaboration with CornerHouse, a nonprofit interagency child abuse evaluation and training center located in Minneapolis, and the American Prosecutors Research Institute's National Center Prosecution of Child Abuse. Finding Words is an intensive, interactive five day course which combines lectures with demonstrations and hands-on experience to help students learn the necessary skills to conduct a competent, investigative interview of a child abuse victim using the CornerHouse forensic interview process.