...San Francisco opened what is believed to be the nation's most comprehensive center of services aimed at keeping traumatized children on those
rails and healthy.
The center, in the Bayview neighborhood, houses three organizations that individually were already providing counseling, medical treatment and law enforcement assistance to traumatized children. But now they are combining their efforts in one building for the first time, and the mayor, police chief, state attorney general and others say that collaboration will be a role model for the rest of the country.
Before the three set up shop under one roof, many children who had been raped or beaten had to be interviewed by police, child-welfare agents and other investigators in the basement of San Francisco General Hospital, then travel across town to various clinics for follow-up treatment.
Now, children can be interviewed at the youth-friendly Child Advocacy Center, walk one floor down to the Center for Youth Wellness for counseling, then go across the hall for medical treatment at the Bayview Child Health Center.
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