Services

The multidisciplinary team

What is the multidisciplinary team?

The Sanford Health Dakota Children’s Advocacy Center (DCAC) provides a place where those agencies charged with responding to child abuse can come together to share information, gather facts, and assist child abuse victims through a multidisciplinary team (MDT) approach. The DCAC is one of many children’s advocacy centers across the country with the mission of reducing the trauma experienced by child victims of abuse as they navigate the legal, investigative, social services and mental health systems following an allegation of abuse. The multidisciplinary team at the DCAC collaborates on:

• Forensic Interviews
• Medical Exams
• Advocacy
• Mental Health
• Case Review
• Training and Education

What agencies comprise the multidisciplinary team?

The following agencies are signatories to inter-agency agreement according to which they participate as members of the DCAC’s multi-disciplinary team and respond to child abuse victims using the Children’s Advocacy Center model: