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Christmas is coming soon and we are so excited to be partnering with DeSoto and Tate County Child Protection Services to ensure each child in Foster Care receives Christmas gifts this year! This is an annual event that Healing Hearts is thrilled to host and has proven successful through your love and generosity that bless each child. If you would like to sign up to be a wish list sponsor, follow this link - https://form.jotform.com/92956858123166 - and help make a child’s Christmas a little more merry!

Thank you to the Northwest Mississippi Association of Realtors for your support and dedication to Healing Hearts! We appreciate your generous donation and look forward to a continued partnership that benefits children and families throughout the communities we serve. #HHCAC #REALTOR

HUGE thank you to SouthPoint Church's amazing members who took part in Serve Day to help Healing Hearts move Tyler's Closet to its new location. Also thanks to Southeastern Freight Lines for their time and donation of the "wheels" to move it all. "Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.” – Barbara De Angelis

Healing Hearts Child Advocacy Center is pleased to announce the addition of Ben Boren, Ann Lamar and George Loper to our Board of Directors. They each have diverse background experiences plus a dedication to our mission that make them an asset to the Healing Hearts Board and to the organization as a whole!

DeSoto County Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) members showed their team spirit at our case review meeting today! Collaborative efforts among our team members are consistently used to enhance and improve investigations and responses to child abuse/neglect cases for the children and families we serve. What is an MDT and how does it work? When police or child protective services believe a child is being abused or neglected, the child is brought to the Healing Hearts Child Advocacy Center (HHCAC)—a safe, child-focused environment—by a caregiver or other “safe” adult. At the HHCAC, the child tells their story once to a trained interviewer who knows the right questions to ask in a way that does not not retraumatize the child. Then, a team that includes medical professionals, law enforcement, mental health, prosecution, child protective services, victim advocacy, and other professionals make decisions together about how to help the child based on the interview. HHCAC and our partners offer therapy and medical exams, plus courtroom preparation, victim advocacy, case management, and other services. This is called the multidisciplinary team (MDT) response and is a core part of the work of a Child Advocacy Center.