2025- support a program reducing Problematic Sexual Behavior (PSB) in youth, a serious but treatable issue. While curiosity about bodies is normal, aggressive, intrusive, or coercive behaviors that persist despite parental intervention require treatment. Left unaddressed, these behaviors can escalate, harming both the child and their peers.
2025 -support the cost of sending our medical professionals, forensic interviewers, trauma therapists, and family advocates (clinical staff) to a Children’s Advocacy Centers of North Carolina (CACNC) Symposium in Fiscal Year 2026 (July 1, 2025 – June 30, 2026). These costs amounted to $5,520 in FY25, and we anticipate the costs to be at least that much in FY26.
2024-Carousel Center requests support for its mission of healing, promoting justice, fostering resilience in children victimized by physical or sexual abuse, and its vision to end child abuse in our community through prevention education.