Emerald Coast Children’s Advocacy Center is seeking donors who will purchase gifts for individual families who have been identified by the Center. Last year, the program helped 197 children in 70 families have a brighter Christmas.
Sign up to Adopt-a-Family on-line at www.eccac.org. Or, contact Angie Harder at angie@eccac.org, (850) 833-9237, Ext. 253, to make arrangements. Then shop for the family and bring unwrapped gifts and Christmas wrapping paper for the gifts by Dec. 18, or sooner to the Niceville or DeFuniak Springs centers.
ECCAC’s mission is to prevent child abuse and neglect, protect children in Okaloosa and Walton Counties, and restore the lives and futures of these impacted children. The Center’s child-friendly facilities in Niceville and DeFuniak Springs house a multidisciplinary team of child protection personnel, prosecutors, law enforcement, DCF, therapists, and ECCAC staff and volunteers. In the past 19 years, more than 12,000 children have received more than 60,000 services to include mental health therapy, crisis intervention, referrals to other community providers, interviews and medical services. Services are provided at no cost by ECCAC, a 501-C-3 non-profit organization.
For further information about the ECCAC, visit www.eccac.org. If abuse is suspected, call the anonymous Florida Abuse Hotline at 1-800-96-ABUSE.
