Hope's Place
Child Advocacy Center

Hope’s Place facilitates the coordination of services from multiple agencies for the common goal of victim treatment, victim advocacy, accurate evidence collection, public education, and prevention of sex crimes. Hope’s Place is a victim-focused Children’s Advocacy Center that provides a safe atmosphere for the victim lessens trauma, and promotes healing by maximizing services through a multi-disciplinary team approach. Hope’s Place actively seeks to reduce the occurrence of sexual abuse and heighten awareness through prevention education. Our Center provides a victim-friendly, home-like environment, which is designed to meet the sexual abuse victim’s need for warmth, support, and protection. Hope’s Place is where all agencies come together to meet the needs of sexually abused children by coordinating services for the common goal of prevention, intervention, and accountability. There are currently Kentucky and Ohio locations.

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Services Offered:

• ​Comprehensive Treatment & Support for Child Victims of Sexual Assault

• Forensic Interviews

• Specialized Medical Exams

• Prevention, Education, and Community Advocacy Efforts

• Coordination Service

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About the Leadership

Hope’s Place opened its doors on October 17, 1998, in Ashland, Kentucky, as a Children’s Advocacy Center. The Center grew out of a community child sexual abuse task force made up of child protective services, law enforcement, prosecution, mental health, and medical communities who met regularly to define and refine professional roles in investigations and intervention to improve the system’s response to sexual abuse. Their efforts resulted in strong working relationships with clear investigative guidelines for an intervention system designed with the victim as its primary focus. Out of this task force, a multi-disciplinary team was formed according to KRS 431.600 and 620.020, which mandates that all investigations of child sexual abuse be conducted by a specialized multi-disciplinary team.