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PARTNERS | HEALTHY CITY | HOW HEALTHY | VISION | SUMMIT | PRIORITIES | FUNCTIONS | CITY OF FALL RIVER |
About 200 police, human
service organization representatives and staff from the Bristol
County Office of the District Attorney gathered on January 31, 2014 at
BK's Beacon Light Tavern
in the Fall River Industrial Park for the third annual legislative
breakfast for the Children's Advocacy
Center (CAC) of Bristol County. The program began with an invocation
by Rev. Robert Lawrence before Executive Director Michelle Loranger
introduced Durfee High School Adjustment Counselor Michaela Hetzler and
Sharon DeCosta who told her story of discovering child sexual abuse in her
own family. Created in 2007, the CAC provides a coordinated response to
child abuse victims of sexual abuse, severe physical abuse and witness to
violence. The CAC is also committed to the ongoing education and
development of prevention programs in Bristol County. Click
here for the Herald News article. Click
here for a 43-minute 
video of the event. Click
here to go to the CAC Facebook page. For more information, contact
Development Manager Vangy
Auclair at 508-674-6111. |
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(Top row) As people sign in at the registration table, CAC Development Manager Vangy Auclair greets speaker Michaela Hetzler who then joins her husband, Joshua, and Stephen Mitchell at the table. (Middle row) Rev. Robert Lawrence delivers the invocation before Executive Director Michelle Loranger invites the crowd to help themselves to breakfast, including Senator Michael Rodrigues and Representative Patricia Haddad, right. (Bottom row) Durfee High School Adjustment Counselor Michaela Hetzler and Sharon DeCosta speak during the hour-long program, and Ms. Auclair talks with Southcoast Hospitals Community Benefits Director Kerry Mello afterwards. |
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