Welcome to The Western Slope Center for Children,
A Child Advocacy Center

We are a Child Advocacy Center, providing services to child sexual abuse victims and their families in a supportive environment that reduces trauma and promotes dignity, justice, and healing.

Compassion...Integrity...Mutual Respect

In Mesa County, more than 500 children are subjected to sexual or physical abuse each year. Our services combine law enforcement, health professionals counselors and long-term help to children and their families. This unique combination ensures that victims are not further traumatized by a system and its myriad of regulations that are meant to protect them and prosecute offenders. Our service providers come to the child, rather than the child being referred from agency to agency, a process that results in many children and their families giving up, and slipping through the regulatory cracks.

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Visit our Center on GivingFirst.org, an online resource that features hundreds of Colorado charities. Learn about our programs, how we are helping our community, and donate online directly to us. When you donate through GivingFirst.org, 100% of your donation comes to the Western Slope Center for Children. Tell your friends and family—no more stamps, no more envelopes—simply donate online. Go to GivingFirst or click on the Donate Now link from our Web site. From all of us at the Center, thank you for your support!

Our Child Advocacy Center relies on community support - we cannot provide our many services without your help. Please look through our web site and consider helping us continue to provide the much-needed comfort and care the hundreds of children in our community need.

Click below to play the Child Help USA video featuring
"The 11th Commandment" by Country Western Star Collin Raye:
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Version 2 (5 MB)
Version 3 (8 MB)

TO REPORT ABUSE
CALL 970-242-1211
OR DIAL 911

If you suspect child abuse - or if a child tells you about abuse - making a report is very important! You cannot get into trouble or lose your job for making a report that turns out to be unfounded if you had good intentions when you made the report.

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All calls remain anonymous.

Reports of known or suspected child abuse or neglect should be made immediately to the Mesa County Department of Human Services Child Protection Hotline at (970) 242-1211 or a local law enforcement agency at 911.

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