(WBAP/KLIF) — One North Texas non-profit is expanding services for abused and exploited children.
A new 24,000 square foot addition to the Alliance for Children’s Arlington Center will provide more space to enhance criminal investigations and offer healing services for kids. Alliance for Children’s Paige Higgins says the old facility had a potential to expose children to additional trauma. Tarrant county now has a centralized campus to help protect children from abuse, human-trafficking, and crime.
The newly completed children advocacy center brings together two units of child protective investigations, as well as the Arlington Police Department’s Crimes Against Children Unit, and Human Exploitation and Trafficking Unit.
Higgins says the two-building campus received a $15.8 million expansion which enhances protection for child victims and provides expanded services for abused children and help bring abusers to justice.
The 33,000 square-foot, two-building complex combines staff from three separate locations and serves Arlington and surrounding cities in Tarrant County. The original 5,000 square-foot center served its first child in 1992.
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