Child and Youth Advocacy Center

What Child and Youth Advocacy Center does

The Child and Youth Advocacy Center (CYAC) is a nonprofit Child Advocacy Center founded in 2004 and headquartered in Lewisburg, West Virginia. It serves as a designated front-line responder for child abuse cases across Greenbrier, Monroe, and Pocahontas Counties, providing forensic interviews, mental health therapy, family advocacy, crisis intervention, and coordination of medical treatment for child victims of abuse. All client services are delivered free of charge, positioning CYAC as a community safety-net organization rather than a fee-for-service provider. In 2024 the organization served 152 new children and reported cumulative service of more than 500 children since inception, with $368,671 in taxpayer savings and an estimated $73 million in lifetime costs of abuse avoided attributable to its intervention.

The organization's business model is donation- and grant-funded. Revenue sources include individual donations, grant funding, and a Round-Up Giving Program operated in partnership with payments-platform providers Plaid and Harness. Operational capacity is supported by 11 to 50 staff and a volunteer and internship pipeline through the Champion for Children Memorial Internship program. CYAC operates formal referral relationships with the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) Centralized Intake, county law enforcement, and the judicial system, and has expanded its upstream prevention work via a partnership with Greenbrier County Public Schools that trained 324 youth-serving professionals in 2024. Its competitive position rests on a regulatory front-line responder designation, specialized forensic interviewing talent, two decades of accumulated trauma-informed protocols, and embedded referral relationships rather than any proprietary technology.

Name

Child and Youth Advocacy Center

Legal name

Child and Youth Advocacy Center

Website

https://childandyouthadvocacy.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2004

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

The Child and Youth Advocacy Center is a Lewisburg, West Virginia nonprofit founded in 2004 that provides free forensic interviews, therapy, advocacy, and crisis services to abused children across Greenbrier, Monroe, and Pocahontas Counties, funded by donations and grants.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Child Advocacy Services

NAICS

Child and Youth Services (62411), Individual and Family Services (6241), Child and Youth Services (624110)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Child Protection & Child Rights (BPAGABAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Youth Justice, At-Risk Youth & Violence Prevention Nonprofits (BPAGADAM), Youth Mental Health, Counseling & Wellbeing (Education-Linked) Nonprofits (BPAGADAK), Family & Parenting Support Services (BPAGAEAC)

Keywords

• Child advocacy services
• Forensic interviewing
• Trauma-informed therapy
• Multidisciplinary investigation
• Abuse prevention education

Headquarters

HQ city

Lewisburg

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Donations: Individual donations of any amount accepted. Options include one-time donations, monthly donations, and endowment fund contributions.
2. Round-Up Giving Program: Automatic round-up of debit/credit card transactions to the next dollar, with spare change donated monthly. Minimum monthly charge of $9.99 if round-up accumulation is less than $10 or connection to card is lost.
3. Grants: Presumably receives grant funding as a non-profit organization serving child abuse victims, though specific grant sources not detailed in available materials.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Child and Youth Advocacy Center delivers free, trauma-informed child abuse intervention services for victims of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and neglect in Greenbrier, Monroe, and Pocahontas Counties in West Virginia. Its core offerings include forensic interviews, mental health therapy, family advocacy and crisis intervention, medical treatment coordination, and MDIT (multidisciplinary investigative team) coordination — all delivered through a single safe, child-friendly facility under one roof. The center also runs prevention education programs in schools and supports an endowment and round-up donation program for funding.

Product overview

The Child and Youth Advocacy Center provides a coordinated suite of services for child abuse intervention and prevention. The core offerings include forensic interviews, mental health therapy, family advocacy, crisis intervention, medical treatment, and MDIT coordination—all delivered through a single child-friendly facility. Prevention education programs train community members to recognize signs of abuse. Fundraising initiatives include the Round-Up giving program (with Plaid and Harness integrations for automated donations) and an endowment fund. The organization also runs the Champion for Children Memorial Internship to cultivate future social workers. All services are provided free of charge to clients.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Forensic Interviews
• Mental Health Therapy
• Family Advocacy and Crisis Intervention Services
• Medical Treatment Coordination

Quantifiable outcome

• $368,671 saved in taxpayer investigative expenses in 2024
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• DHHR Centralized IntakecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerWest Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources Centralized Intake center handles reports of child abuse and neglect (1-800-352-6513), serving as the primary referral pathway for cases to the CAC.
• Local Law Enforcement AgenciescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLocal law enforcement agencies in Greenbrier, Monroe, and Pocahontas Counties partner with CAC for coordinated investigation of child abuse cases.
• Medical ExpertscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMedical professionals provide appropriate medical treatment for child abuse victims as part of the multidisciplinary team response under one roof.
• Mental Health ClinicianscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMental health clinicians provide therapy services to help children begin the healing process as part of the coordinated CAC services.
• RAINNminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNational sexual assault hotline referred to adult survivors of abuse who need support. CYAC directs adult survivors to RAINN hotline at 800-656-HOPE.
• Greenbrier County Public SchoolscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with local school system for child abuse prevention education. 324 youth serving professionals trained, 1,327 elementary students received prevention education in 2024.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Childhelp: National nonprofit focused on child abuse prevention, treatment, and advocacy, operating hotlines, residential programs, and education. Comparable mission focus with a much broader national footprint than CYAC's regional scope.

Direct peers

• Care House (Oakland County, Michigan): County-level Child Advocacy Center using the same multidisciplinary team model to serve child abuse victims with forensic interviews, therapy, and family advocacy, making it directly comparable in scale and service mix.
• Children's Advocacy Centers of West Virginia: Statewide chapter supporting multiple West Virginia CACs. Directly comparable as a peer coordinating CAC services in the same state and offering potential partnership, training, and advocacy infrastructure for CYAC.
• Dallas Children's Advocacy Center: One of the largest and most established CACs in the country, operating the same MDIT/forensic interview model to coordinate child abuse investigation, prosecution, and treatment under one roof for a defined region.

Others

• National Center for Missing & Exploited Children: National nonprofit focused on missing and exploited children, providing resource coordination, hotline, and recovery services. Comparable as a broader child protection partner ecosystem that CYAC's clients and partners may interface with.
• Prevent Child Abuse America: National advocacy and prevention nonprofit focused on child abuse prevention through public awareness, policy, and chapter network. Comparable on the upstream prevention and community education mission alongside CYAC's prevention work.
• National Children's Alliance: National accrediting body for Child Advocacy Centers. Highly comparable as the umbrella organization under which CYAC operates; provides standards, training, and accreditation that directly shape CYAC's CAC model and forensic interview protocols.

Emerging players

• Darkness to Light: National organization focused on child sexual abuse prevention education, training adults and youth-serving professionals. Comparable on the prevention education program component that CYAC delivered to 324 professionals and 1,327 students in 2024.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/ChildAndYouthAdvocacyCenter

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles11 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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