Supporting families to help stop child neglect and abuse
The McLane Children’s Child Protection Team supports families through Central Texas to help stop child neglect and abuse. Our multi-disciplinary team offers education on prevention and abuse and the teams treat suspected victims of child maltreatment and abuse.
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Advocating for children through prevention and education
The center’s staff works to develop Shaken Baby Prevention Programs in all of the surrounding Central Texas hospitals that handle deliveries. Our Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners and forensic nurses are also working to create educational opportunities for child advocates in the community, law enforcement agencies, Child Protective Services, medical and nursing students, Communities in Schools, and Unit Victim Advocates.
The center is also working to create an annual conference on child abuse topics and to develop a program on “appropriate touching,” in which the staff will work with various community groups to educate younger children on this subject.
A multidisciplinary staff and services aimed to aid in abuse and trauma
Our multidisciplinary staff includes a pediatric focus on forensics by pediatricians, pediatric and adolescent OBGYN specialists, an adolescent pediatrician, forensic nurses, Baylor Scott & White McLane Children's emergency department, social services, hospital school services, surgery and trauma, hospitalists and pediatric radiology.
Baylor Scott & White McLane Children's is a verified Level II Trauma Center. Not only is our emergency department designed to care for children specifically, but we've been verified to care for the most severe pediatric trauma cases.
Our team includes counseling services, social workers, mental health professionals, pastoral care, a Partnership with Child Advocacy Center, and the Child Life Program. Our community partners include Families in Crisis, Aware Central Texas (ACT), the Children's Advocacy Center, the Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) Association, Safe Kids Mid-Texas, and Communities in Schools.