Mountain Child Advocacy Center

What Mountain Child Advocacy Center does

Mountain Child Advocacy Center is an accredited, 501(c)(3) nonprofit Child Advocacy Center founded in 1989 and headquartered at 11 Vanderbilt Park Drive in Asheville, North Carolina, where it operates from a facility housed inside HCA Mission Children's Hospital. The organization serves children from birth to age 18 and their families in Buncombe County who have experienced physical, sexual, or emotional abuse or neglect, delivering forensic interviews, medical exams, advocacy, case management, and trauma therapy through a multi-disciplinary team model that coordinates law enforcement, prosecution, mental health, social services, and child protection professionals. Its evidence-based clinical portfolio includes TF-CBT, AF-CBT, CPP, PCIT, CPT, ART, SPARCS, and PSB-CBT, with bilingual clinical capacity in Spanish, and its prevention education arm reaches 8,000-9,000+ K-4 children annually across Asheville and Buncombe County schools alongside Darkness to Light Stewards of Children training for youth-serving organizations and Circle of Security parenting programming.

The organization has gone through multiple name changes (WNC Regional Child Abuse Center, WNC Child Advocacy and Prevention, Child Abuse Prevention Services/CAPS) and was transformed into an accredited Child Advocacy Center and renamed Mountain Child Advocacy Center in 2016. It currently runs a staff of approximately 14 named personnel under Executive Director Carla Jones, with Operations Manager Kristin Ledford and Development and Outreach Coordinator Kiki O'Connor leading administrative functions, three Community Prevention Educators and a School Prevention Educator handling prevention delivery, two Clinical Leads with LCSW credentials, a Part-Time Therapist, a Full-Time Therapist, and Contract Therapists providing clinical services, and a Clinical Family Advocate doing wraparound case support.

Revenue is entirely donation-derived through individual giving, monthly giving, legacy/bequest programs, in-kind gifts, corporate partnerships and event sponsorships, foundation grants, and government funding. All services are provided at no cost to children and families. The organization is governed by a Board of Directors with no parent company, equity ownership, or external investors, and participates in a broader Western North Carolina victim-services ecosystem that includes HCA Mission Hospital, Buncombe County Government, DSS, law enforcement, the District Attorney's Office, Our Voice, Helpmate, Pisgah Legal Services, and the Family Justice Center of Buncombe County.

Name

Mountain Child Advocacy Center

Legal name

Mountain Child Advocacy Center

Website

https://mtncac.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1989

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Mountain Child Advocacy Center is a Buncombe County, North Carolina 501(c)(3) Child Advocacy Center that provides free forensic interviews, trauma therapy, advocacy, and school-based prevention education to abused and neglected children and their families. It operates as the National Children's Alliance-accredited CAC for the county and reaches 8,000-9,000 children yearly through its prevention programs.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Child Advocacy and Abuse Prevention Services

NAICS

Child and Youth Services (62411), Individual and Family Services (6241), Other Individual and Family Services (624190)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Child Protection & Child Rights (BPAGABAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Child Welfare, Foster Care & Adoption Services (BPAGAEAE), Youth Justice, At-Risk Youth & Violence Prevention Nonprofits (BPAGADAM), Pediatric Rehabilitation & Developmental Therapy Centers (PT/OT/SLP) (HLAFAJAL)

Keywords

• Child abuse prevention
• Trauma therapy services
• Forensic interview services
• Advocacy center services
• Prevention education programs

Headquarters

HQ city

Asheville

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, Others

Revenue model

1. Individual Donations: One-time and recurring donations from community members to support free services for children and families.
2. Monthly Giving Program: Recurring monthly donations providing steady funding for free services.
3. Legacy Giving/Bequests: Planned giving through wills, codicils, life insurance beneficiaries, and retirement plan designations.
4. Business and Foundation Gifts: Corporate partnerships, event sponsorships, and foundation grants.
5. In-Kind Donations: Gifts-in-kind including clothing, gift cards, art supplies, and office materials.
6. EIN: Tax-exempt organization under EIN 58-1828408 with 501(c)(3) status.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Mountain Child Advocacy Center is an accredited nonprofit Child Advocacy Center in Asheville, NC that delivers free, comprehensive services to children and families affected by abuse and neglect in Buncombe County. Its core offering integrates evidence-based trauma therapy (including TF-CBT, AF-CBT, CPP, PCIT, CPT, ART, SPARCS, and PSB-CBT), forensic interviews, on-site medical evaluations, advocacy and case management, and court preparation within a single child-friendly facility. The organization also delivers child abuse prevention education to K-4 students across Buncombe County schools, reaching 8,000-9,000+ children annually.

Product overview

Mountain Child Advocacy Center provides a comprehensive suite of child advocacy services centered around their core Child Advocacy Center (CAC) model, which integrates forensic interviews, medical exams, and trauma-focused therapies in one child-friendly location. The organization offers evidence-based therapy programs for children (TF-CBT, AF-CBT, CPP, PCIT, PSB-CBT) and adolescents/adults (CPT, ART, SPARCS), alongside prevention education programs including the Darkness to Light Stewards of Children curriculum and Circle of Security parenting program. Services are provided at no cost to children and families in Buncombe County who have experienced abuse and neglect.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Child Trauma Therapy Services

Named customers3 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered core and supporting.

• HCA Mission Hospital / Child Safety TeamcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMulti-agency collaboration providing comprehensive CAC services. HCA Mission Hospital houses the Mountain CAC facility and provides the Child Safety Team which conducts forensic interviews and has two board-certified Child Abuse Pediatricians for medical exams.
• Buncombe County GovernmentcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGovernment partnership for child welfare services in Buncombe County.
• Buncombe County Department of Health and Human ServicescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration for child protective services and family support programs.
• Law EnforcementcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMulti-disciplinary team member providing investigative support for child abuse cases. Partners include Buncombe County Sheriff's Department and Asheville Police Department.
• District Attorney's OfficecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMulti-disciplinary team member for prosecution of child abuse cases.
• Our VoicesupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerLocal sexual assault advocacy organization providing additional victim services.
• HelpmatesupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerDomestic violence services organization in Asheville.
• Pisgah Legal ServicessupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerLegal aid services providing legal support to families served by Mountain CAC.
• Asheville and Buncombe County SchoolscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSchools receive child abuse prevention education programs. Mountain CAC provides therapy groups in select schools. Collaborative reach of 8,000-9,000+ children annually.
• Family Justice Center of Buncombe CountycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMountain CAC provides services at this newly formed center alongside other victim services.
• National Children's AlliancecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNational accrediting body for Child Advocacy Centers. Mountain CAC is an accredited CAC providing training and technical assistance.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves9 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Others

• Family Justice Center of Buncombe County: Newly formed multi-agency victim services center in Buncombe County where Mountain CAC provides co-located services. Comparable as an emerging co-located service hub for abuse and family violence victims in the same geography.
• Our Voice: Asheville-based sexual assault advocacy and crisis services organization. Listed as an active referral partner of Mountain CAC; operates in an adjacent victim-services niche and shares the same donor and grant ecosystem in Buncombe County.
• Helpmate: Buncombe County domestic violence services organization listed as a Mountain CAC partner. Operates an adjacent victim-services mission with overlapping donor and referral relationships, making it a thematically comparable peer in the same geography.
• Pisgah Legal Services: Western North Carolina legal aid nonprofit providing free legal services to low-income residents. Active Mountain CAC partner that supplies legal support to client families; comparable as a Buncombe County-based social/legal services nonprofit in the same donor and MDT ecosystem.

Direct peers

• Children's Advocacy Centers of North Carolina: Statewide association of accredited Child Advocacy Centers in North Carolina. Direct peer providing the same CAC model (forensic interviews, MDT coordination, therapy) at member centers across the state, with overlapping funding streams and standards.
• Darkness to Light: National nonprofit focused on child sexual abuse prevention education through the Stewards of Children curriculum, which Mountain CAC directly delivers and trains facilitators on. Highly comparable mission (child abuse prevention) with overlapping training programs.
• Prevent Child Abuse North Carolina: State chapter of Prevent Child Abuse America working to prevent child abuse and neglect across NC through prevention programs and policy advocacy. Direct peer in child abuse prevention, family support, and community education in the same state.

Broad incumbents

• National Children's Alliance: National accrediting body and membership network for Child Advocacy Centers across the U.S. Mountain CAC is an accredited member, and NCA's standards and training programs directly shape Mountain CAC's service delivery and funding access, making it the closest umbrella peer.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/mtncac
• Facebookfacebook.com/mtncac
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/mountain-child-advocacy-center

Compliance1 record

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles14 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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