DJJ Child Abuse Awareness: GCCA Flag Memorial

During Child Abuse Awareness Month, the Georgia Center for Child Advocacy (GCCA) held their annual Flag Raising Memorial Service in Atlanta.  Dedicated to those children in Fulton and DeKalb counties who lost their lives during the previous year due to child abuse, the GCCA Flag Memorial honored twenty-nine children whose names were read aloud after a moment of silence to recognize the lives cut short at the hands of abuse and neglect.

The Georgia Center for Child Advocacy is a private, non-profit agency that was established in 1987. The Center’s mission is to champion the needs of sexually and severely physically abused children through prevention, intervention, therapy, and collaboration. These services are provided at no cost to children who reside in or were abused in DeKalb or Fulton County. Throughout the criminal investigation, the Georgia Center for Child Advocacy’s role is to focus on the child’s needs rather than on the crime itself. To learn more, visit http://georgiacenterforchildadvocacy.org/.