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[CITE: 42USC13002]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                   CHAPTER 132--VICTIMS OF CHILD ABUSE
 
  SUBCHAPTER I--IMPROVING INVESTIGATION AND PROSECUTION OF CHILD ABUSE 
                                  CASES
 
Sec. 13002. Local children's advocacy centers


(a) In general

    The Administrator, in coordination with the Director and with the 
Director of the Office of Victims of Crime, shall make grants to develop 
and implement multidisciplinary child abuse investigation and 
prosecution programs.

(b) Grant criteria

    (1) The Director shall establish the criteria to be used in 
evaluating applications for grants under this section consistent with 
sections 5665a, 5673,\1\ and 5676 \1\ of this title.
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    (2) In general, the grant criteria established pursuant to paragraph 
(1) may require that a program include any of the following elements:
        (A) A written agreement between local law enforcement, social 
    service, health, and other related agencies to coordinate child 
    abuse investigation, prosecution, treatment, and counseling 
    services.
        (B) An appropriate site for referring, interviewing, treating, 
    and counseling child victims of sexual and serious physical abuse 
    and neglect and nonoffending family members (referred to as the 
    ``counseling center'').
        (C) Referral of all sexual and serious physical abuse and 
    neglect cases to the counseling center not later than 24 hours after 
    notification of an incident of abuse.
        (D) Joint initial investigative interviews of child victims by 
    personnel from law enforcement, health, and social service agencies.
        (E) A requirement that, to the extent practicable, the same 
    agency representative who conducts an initial interview conduct all 
    subsequent interviews.
        (F) A requirement that, to the extent practicable, all 
    interviews and meetings with a child victim occur at the counseling 
    center.
        (G) Coordination of each step of the investigation process to 
    minimize the number of interviews that a child victim must attend.
        (H) Designation of a director for the multidisciplinary program.
        (I) Assignment of a volunteer or staff advocate to each child in 
    order to assist the child and, when appropriate, the child's family, 
    throughout each step of judicial proceedings.
        (J) Such other criteria as the Director shall establish by 
    regulation.

(c) Distribution of grants

    In awarding grants under this section, the Director shall ensure 
that grants are distributed to both large and small States and to rural, 
suburban, and urban jurisdictions.

(d) Consultation with regional children's advocacy centers

    A grant recipient under this section shall consult from time to time 
with regional children's advocacy centers in its census region that are 
grant recipients under section 13001b of this title.

(Pub. L. 101-647, title II, Sec. 214, formerly Sec. 212, Nov. 29, 1990, 
104 Stat. 4793; renumbered Sec. 214 and amended Pub. L. 102-586, 
Sec. 6(b)(1), (c), Nov. 4, 1992, 106 Stat. 5029, 5034.)

                       References in Text

    Sections 5673 and 5676 of this title, referred to in subsec. (b)(1), 
was in the original a reference to sections 293 and 296 of the Juvenile 
Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974, Pub. L. 93-415. Sections 
293 and 296 of the Act were renumbered sections 299B and 299E, 
respectively, by Pub. L. 102-586, Sec. 2(i)(1)(B), Nov. 4, 1992, 106 
Stat. 5006.


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 214 of Pub. L. 101-647 was renumbered section 214B 
and is classified to section 13004 of this title.


                               Amendments

    1992--Pub. L. 102-586, Sec. 6(c)(1), substituted ``Local children's 
advocacy centers'' for ``Authority of Director to make grants'' in 
section catchline.
    Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 102-586, Sec. 6(c)(2), substituted ``The 
Administrator, in coordination with the Director and with the Director 
of the Office of Victims of Crime,'' for ``The Director of the Office of 
Victims of Crime (hereinafter in this subchapter referred to as the 
`Director'), in consultation with officials of the Department of Health 
and Human Services,''.
    Subsec. (b)(2)(B). Pub. L. 102-586, Sec. 6(c)(3), inserted ``and 
nonoffending family members'' after ``neglect''.
    Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 102-586, Sec. 6(c)(4), added subsec. (d).

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 13001b, 13004 of this title.
