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Helping Communities Respond to Child Abuse
Under Pat’s leadership, a model Interagency Agreement, written in 1988, brought together multiple community agencies “under one roof” at the CAC to coordinate services and interventions in allegations of child sexual abuse. With the Mobile County Public Schools (MCPS), Pat’s leadership led to the writing and implementation of the joint MCPS/CAC Child Personal Safety Curriculum in 1990, a grade-level appropriate child sexual abuse awareness/prevention program that has now been adopted by many school districts in Alabama under the Erin’s Law passed by the Legislature in 2015. Pat was also appointed by Governor Bentley to serve on the Erin’s Law Task Force for embedding child sexual abuse awareness statewide. His leadership through three major capital fundraising drives has allowed the CAC to grow from 3,200 square feet to over 8,500 square feet today to better meet the needs of the Center and its partner agencies.