Ms. Shellie McMillon

Position: Center Coordinator
Organization: Alliance For Children

Biography

Alliance For Children, the Tarrant County Children's Advocacy Center program, provides self-contained, child-friendly centers where abused children and their families can go for evaluation, crisis intervention, evidence gathering, group counseling, and case management services. These services are available in three Alliance For Children centers, located in Arlington, Fort Worth, and Hurst.

Each center co-houses investigators from Child Protective Services, detectives from participating law enforcement agencies, and staff from the Tarrant County District Attorney's office. These professionals work together to investigate reports of serious, life-threatening physical abuse and sexual abuse of children. Children's statements are videotaped and on-site medical assessments are conducted by the C.A.R.E. Team at the Arlington center and at Cook Children's Medical Center in Fort Worth. After child abuse is confirmed, Alliance For Children provides free case management services and on-site group counseling for sexually abused children and their protective parents.  

Speech Titles

Alliance For Children provides educational programs in the community which include the following presentations:

• Alliance For Children General Presentation
• P.S. It's My Body
• Stewards of Children
• NetSmartz
• Safe Baby Site Program
• Shaken Baby Syndrome 101 and SIDS

Speech Description

The Alliance For Children General Presentation is a presentation about our children's advocacy center program, signs and symptoms of child abuse, reporting suspected child abuse and volunteer opportunities with our agency.

The P.S. It's My Body program is an innovative, practical personal safety program designed to teach and reinforce the three R's of personal safety: Recognize, Resist, and Report. The curriculum is divided into grade-specific units (Grades Pre-K thru 6th) that include: learning objectives, developmentally appropriate activities, discussion questions and program coordination tips and handouts. With this program there are parent activities included in all five units and the parent's encouragement in personal safety efforts are encouraged through newsletters and parent-child activities.

Stewards of Children is a revolutionary sexual abuse prevention training program that educates adults to prevent, recognize, and react to responsiblity to child sexual abuse and motivate them to courageous action. The Stewards of Children program is designed for parents and organizations that serve children and youth. 

NetSmartz is an interactive, educational safety resource that teaches children and teen how to stay safe on the internet. NetSmartz combines the newest technologies available and the most current information to create high-impact educational activities.

Alliance For Children offers a 30-minute presentation about the Tarrant County Safe Baby Site Program and the Baby Moses Law. Participants will learn about the devastating issue of newborn abandonment in our community, the Texas law that protects newborns and deserate parents and ways to get involved with this project by supporting designated Safe Baby Sites in Tarrant County.

Alliance for Children offers a presentation on Shaken Baby Syndrome 101 and SIDS which is a 30-minute to an hour program that teaches adults and teens about Shaken Baby Syndrome. The training includes symptoms of shaking and long term effects, victim information, perpetrator statistics, and injuries caused by shaking/impact. It also includes general information and statistics on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, maternal risk factors and prevention tips.  

References

Minimum Speaking Time: 30 minutes
Maximum Speaking Time: 1 hour to 3 hours