In Muncie, the Suzanne Gresham Center offers a wide array of programs and collaborates with other community entities to assist families and children facing issues such as abuse, neglect, substance use, behavioral issues and social challenges. These services also assist children with emotional or psychological needs and foster care placement.

Meridian Health Services provides complete treatment services for East Central Indiana’s children and their families. The Suzanne Gresham Center programs include family-centered services, intensive family preservation and reunification services, and school-based services.

Meridian works closely with other entities in the community including schools, physicians, the juvenile justice system and state agencies. Services range from outpatient individual, family and group therapy to home-based services which are geared to keeping at-risk families together or reunifying them. In addition, Meridian has a System of Care Program that coordinates both natural and agency supports in the community for families so that their children are able to stay at home and thrive.

Integrated programs for families and children in other Meridian locations also include:
• Meridian Health Pediatrics
• MeridianMD (primary family medical care)
• Meridian Dental
• Family-Centered Services (Home, community and school-based services)
• Counseling
• Psychiatric Services
• Intensive Wraparound Services
• Emergency Services
• FosterHope

Meridian Suzanne Gresham Center
Supportive Care for Children & Families
3620 W. White River Blvd.
Muncie, IN

To schedule your appointment today call 866-306-2647 or visit https://www.meridianhs.org/social/child-advocacy-center/.

"We Have a Voice" to Stop It!

April is Child Abuse Prevention Month.

One of the blessings of living in this community is that we have a Child Advocacy Center (CAC) that provides a neutral, child-friendly center for investigations of alleged child abuse. It brings together law enforcement, prosecution, child protective services, victim advocates, medical and mental health to conduct one interview — reducing the stress for a child and providing comfort and security, while increasing rates of prosecution.

Meridian Services’ CAC is also the only nationally accredited center in Indiana that is housed within a behavioral health center adding a greater benefit to children and families because of the integration of counseling to help them thrive and end the cycle of abuse.

Since 2006 when Meridian helped spearhead the development of the area’s only CAC, the rate of abuse cases accepted for prosecution has nearly tripled in just the first 5 years after its inception; from 27% to nearly 80%.

But it’s not enough. Won’t you help stop the abuse by helping fund the Child Advocacy Center.

- End the suffering.
- Heal the victims.
- And find justice.

Don’t be silent. Protect our kids. It’s on all of us. Call (800) 800-5556 for the Child Abuse Hotline.

What is the Child Advocacy Center?

The Meridian Services Child Advocacy Center, located in the Suzanne Gresham Center, offers interviews and investigations of children who have experienced abuse. The environment was designed with the child’s comfort and well-being as a top priority. The CAC allows the community law enforcement and legal teams to pursue reports of child abuse more effectively. Most importantly, the CAC at the Gresham Center is a caring and healing environment for a victim of child abuse.

Learn more: https://www.meridianhs.org/social/child-advocacy-center/abuse/