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
765-288-1928
To schedule your appointment today call 866-306-2647 or click below!
The Child Advocacy Center (CAC) is a regional center located at the Suzanne Gresham Center where interviews and investigations of children who have experienced abuse are conducted in a concise manner.
The CAC allows the community law enforcement and legal teams to pursue reports of child abuse more effectively and efficiently, resulting in higher prosecution rates. Most importantly, the CAC offers protection in a nurturing and healing environment for victims of child abuse.
The Child Advocacy Center has received full national accreditation by the National Children’s Alliance. Only 11 of Indiana’s 27 facilities have met the rigorous standards to receive this accreditation.
The Child Advocacy Center is a safe and calming space for children who have faced such trauma and it has a friendly and park-like appearance. The center allows for a multidisciplinary response team and conforms to best practice of only interviewing the child once to minimize trauma. The interview gives a space where the child can be heard, while assessing the safety concerns for what may come next. Across the nation, interviews are conducted in an impersonal and sometimes frightening facility, the Child Advocacy Center has a welcoming environment for a child to feel more comfortable.
Last year, donations made on Giving Tuesday and through December at Holidays at Gresham, provided 400 Hope and Healing Comfort Kits to children at the CAC. The kits included: a blanket, stuffed animal, snack, toothbrush, and other age-appropriate activity items all enclosed in a drawstring backpack.
You can make a difference in a child’s life by donating today!
Meridian’s Child Advocacy Center (CAC) has a beautifully designed mosaic Listening Tree found on one of the walls at the center. Children who receive services from the CAC are part of a family of hope and love. To show unity, and offer a feeling of togetherness, children are invited to add their name to a copper leaf and place it on the Listening Tree.
For more information about Meridian’s Child Advocacy Center, call 866-306-2647.
