PANAMA CITY Emotions ran high as the Gulf Coast Children’s Advocacy Center unveiled its rebuilt therapy building Friday that was destroyed by Hurricane Michael.
The days of doing therapy in cars or the back of pickup trucks in the parking lot are gone. The children who have survived abuse can finally have a dedicated therapy building again.
The Lauren s Kids Foundation and the AshBritt Foundation helped put the building together, but they had assistance from local officials when it came to funding. Florida State Sen. Lauren Book, a longtime friend of the Gulf Coast CAC, is a sexual abuse survivor herself and wanted to help bring the therapy building back.