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Bivona Child Advocacy Center

At Bivona Child Advocacy Center, we facilitate a collaboration of professionals who specialize in child abuse. They protect, treat and counsel children and their families so the journey of healing can begin.

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Our mission

The mission of Bivona Child Advocacy Center is to coordinate and provide services and support to meet the needs of child victims of sexual or physical abuse and their families at a single and safe, child-friendly facility. The Center is committed to reducing trauma, promoting accountability, fostering healing, and advocating on behalf of child victims of sexual and physical abuse.

Our vision

That every child has access to the services of a children’s advocacy center.

Bivona Summit on Child Abuse

In April 2009, we hosted our First Annual Bivona Summit on Child Abuse, featuring nationally noted child abuse expert Victor Vieth as our keynote speaker and a host of workshops and panel discussions. Contact us if you’d like to be included on next year’s invitation list.

Learn more about child sexual abuse

Child abuse is a silent epidemic in this country. Get informed.

Resources

We’ve put together a lengthy list of links to agencies and organizations who can provide you with more information and assistance.

Download Bivona brochure

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It’s a handy all-in-one-place reference. Download the PDF. If you would like printed versions to distribute, please contact us.

 

We look forward to hearing from you

Contact us anytime, and we’ll do what we can to help.

 

Honorary Board Member

Trudy Starr

Trudy Starr is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in accounting from St. John Fisher College in May of 1987. She began her career in public accounting as an auditor for Bonadio, Insero & Co. where she worked for a period of six years. She worked in private industry for three years as an accounting manager.

She returned to public accounting and in December of 2000 started an outsource accounting department for a firm that offered outsourced Controller/CFO services to clients on a part time or interim basis. The department grew to 10 employees before she left to accept a position of CFO at Mercury Print Productions in May of 2003.

Trudy is a founding board member and former treasurer of the Bivona Child Advocacy Center and a past board member of Pre-Trial Services, Inc.

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275 Lake Avenue, Rochester, NY 14608  Tel: (585) 935-7800  Fax: (585) 935-7804

©2009 Bivona Child Advocacy Center. All Rights Reserved. None of the photographs
of children on this web site depict actual clients of Bivona Child Advocacy Center.
We maintain strict confidentiality with all of our clients.