Serves as a model for the 1,100+ Children’s Advocacy Centers (CACs) now operating in the United States and in more than 41 countries throughout the world. After developing its innovative CAC/MDT approach on the local level, the NCAC began to train others to deal effectively with this complex investigations. Through its influence in training, communities across the country and across the world began to model their child abuse programs after the CAC/MDT approach created at the NCAC.