Children's Alliance Center for Child Sexual Abuse Victims in Berks County
The Children's Alliance Center of Berks County, known as the CAC, is a service of the Berks County District Attorney's office that works with child victims of sexual abuse. It brings law enforcement, prosecutors, child protective services, victim advocacy agencies and the medical and mental health professions together as one collaborative team to investigate and prosecute cases.
The center serves child victims of sexual abuse under the age of 18.
The point of the center is to keep a child from having to tell the story over and over. Children are interviewed once, and various agencies observe the interview at the same time, which reduces the number of interviews and the emotional stress on the child. The center describes this as a child-friendly environment that also leads to more successful prosecutions.
The CAC is an accredited member of the National Children's Alliance in Washington, DC. Accredited membership requires these program components: a multidisciplinary team, diversity, equity and access of services, forensic interviews, victim support and advocacy, medical evaluation, mental health, case review and coordination, case tracking, organizational capacity, and child safety and protection.
The center opened in July 2004 and has helped thousands of children. Every year it conducts approximately 400 forensic interviews. Staff are Amy Sundstrom, Director, Laura Kemp-Reichard, Victim Advocate, and Dairicelis Rodriguez Guzman, Forensic Interviewer. Its listed partners include Berks County Children and Youth Services, the Berks County District Attorney's Office, the Berks County Detective's Office, the Berks County Mental Health/Developmental Disabilities Program, local police departments and State police, Safe Berks, Penn State Health St. Joseph, Tower Health and several behavioral health agencies.
The contact address listed for the center is the Berks County Services Center, 633 Court Street, 15th Floor, Reading, PA 19601. The phone number is 610-898-0535, and the hours given are Monday through Friday 8:00 am to 4:30 pm.
The page does not say how a family gets a forensic interview or an appointment, whether a referral from police or Children and Youth Services is needed, where interviews take place, or what any of it costs, so ask when you call.
Source: berkspa.gov/departments/da/children-s-alliance-center, read September 18, 2026.
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The Children's Alliance Center of Berks County ("CAC") is a service of the Berks County District Attorney's office that serves child victims of sexual abuse under the age of 18. The CAC strives to reduce the child's trauma by providing a unique multi-disciplinary response to child abuse. We enable law enforcement, prosecutors, child protective services, victim advocacy agencies and the medical and mental health professions to work together as a collaborative team to investigate and prosecute…
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Children's Alliance Center of Berks County
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