The Children's Advocacy Services of Greater St. Louis (CASGSL) is a University-based, multidisciplinary child trauma and advocacy center that provides high-quality trauma-focused services to youth, families, and the community. We promote resiliency, physical safety, and emotional stability through comprehensive research, forensic and clinical services, and educational and advocacy programming.
What we do
The Children's Advocacy Services of Greater St. Louis (CASGSL) serves the children and families of St. Louis County and St. Louis City. CASGSL is one of 15 Child Advocacy Centers across Missouri.
CASGSL exists to allow children to share their experiences of abuse or neglect in a child-friendly and non-threatening environment. At CASGSL we operate by what we call the Child First Doctrine; meaning that the child and their well-being is our first priority.
The primary goal of CASGSL is to coordinate the multidisciplinary team to ensure that children disclosing abuse are not further traumatized by the intervention systems designed to protect them. Services offered include forensic interviews, child and family advocacy and mental health therapy. These services are at no cost to our children and families due to the generous support of our donors and funders.
CASGSL is accredited by the National Children’s Alliance which means our center adheres to the highest standards of practice for child advocacy centers in the nation.
