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On Thursday, September 15th, over 140 of Collin County's civic leaders and elected officials gathered together for our Community Leadership Breakfast, in celebration of our 30 years of service to the children of Collin County.
During the breakfast, attendees heard from Bruce Glasscock, Retired Plano City Manager and Police Chief, who shared the founding history of Children's Advocacy Center of Collin County. “If you told me 30 years ago that we’d be where we are today, I’d say, 'It’s a pipe dream. It just isn’t possible.' You just don’t realize the challenges that we faced 30 years ago in bringing this concept together," said Glasscock.
When the Center was founded in 1992, it was a radical idea that took hard work, dedication, and buy-in from multiple agencies in Collin County. Thirty years later, we see the magnitude of what resulted from a radical idea. To date, the Center has served over 75,000 children and non-offending family members victimized by child abuse in Collin County.
As our community grows, the demand for our services does too. Seven years ago, the Center formed a committee to review multitudes of data, which projected that we must be prepared to serve three times the amount of clients by 2050. That information served as the catalyst for our plans to build a second, full-service facility in the northern part of Collin County. Those plans are now a reality with the opening of our new facility, The Speese Campus located in McKinney.
While we reflect on the past 30 years and the obstacles it took to for us to get to where we are today, we also look forward to the future as we continue our mission of providing safety, healing, and justice to every child in Collin County who needs us.
To see more about this event, please click the links below.
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