Children’s Advocacy Center, CSO team up to help kids showing problematic sexual behavior
The Children’s Advocacy Center of Franklin County and North Quabbin Inc. on Wisdom Way in Greenfield. Staff File Photo/Paul Franz
Published: 1/20/2021 5:20:44 PM
GREENFIELD — The Children’s Advocacy Center of Franklin County and North Quabbin Inc. is collaborating with Clinical & Support Options (CSO) to offer a program for children who engage in problematic sexual behavior, or what was once more commonly labeled “child-on-child sexual abuse.”
Children’s Advocacy Center Case Manager and Multi-Disciplinary Team Facilitator Samantha Staelens said a large part of the program is psycho-education for caregivers, service providers and the community on normative sexual behavior and how to educate children in a way that doesn’t label them as “offenders” or “predators.”