Boost Child & Youth Advocacy Centre
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Mission Statement
Boost Child & Youth Advocacy Centre (CYAC) believes that all children and youth have a right to grow up in a safe, healthy and nurturing environment. We are dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and violence through education and awareness, and to collaborating with our community partners to provide services to children, youth and their families.
About This Cause
Boost Child & Youth Advocacy Centre (Boost CYAC) is an innovative community response to child abuse investigations. A partnership among local community and government agencies, it brings together all professionals involved in child abuse cases under one roof, for a coordinated, seamless, interdisciplinary response to child abuse victims in Toronto. The CYAC space is accessible, safe, and child and family-friendly. We have a child interview room and a child examination room where physical and sexual abuse examinations can be performed. The interview rooms are equipped with recording equipment, to document and preserve a child’s statement so it can be used in the criminal justice process – and reduce the child’s trauma in repeatedly telling his/her experience of abuse. Our team of highly-skilled professionals collaborate on cases, take actions that prevent re-victimization, and support the child’s long-term well-being, as well as non-offending family members. Our goal is to provide a centre of leadership, promoting excellence in child abuse services, research, training and education – a collective community response to protecting Toronto’s children from abuse. Boost CYAC’s community service partners in the City of Toronto include: Children’s Aid Society of Toronto, Catholic Children’s Aid Society of Toronto, Native Child & Family Services, Jewish Family & Child, Toronto Police Service, SAFE-T Program (Radius Child & Youth Services), Child Development Institute, and the Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect Program (The Hospital for Sick Children).