Through funding from The Office for Victims of Crime, the National Children’s Advocacy Center (NCAC) is providing resources to raise awareness of child victims who suffer from poly-victimization. Poly-victimization, also known as complex trauma, describes the experience of multiple victimizations of different types. Research shows that the impact of poly-victimization is much more powerful than even multiple events of a single type of victimization, and this issue is strongly integrated into the Attorney General’s Defending Childhood Initiative which addresses children’s exposure to multiple types of violence. The resources offered herein are designed to equip child maltreatment practitioners with the skills they need to assess and assist poly-victims. All materials are devoted to filling the gaps in knowledge and understanding of child poly-victims and provide resources for appropriate response, reaction, and questioning for all professionals working with children, throughout the nation and beyond.

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