Now entering its 45th year, the Child Protection Center provides life-saving services for children who are victims of child abuse. Serving Sarasota and DeSoto Counties, our extensive programming brings education, intervention services, and trauma-informed care to heal the hearts of survivors.

Our mission: the prevention, intervention, and treatment of child abuse. CPC’s Prevention Program has been providing essential child abuse prevention education since 1992. It’s Florida’s longest tenured prevention program and has reached more than 800,000 individuals. 

The Child Protection Team is a state-mandated program that facilitates medical examinations, forensic interviews, and court testimonies. Locally, CPT is the only authorized provider of these services.

Our Supervised Visitation Program provides a safe, neutral environment for non-custodial caregivers to rebuild relationships with their child.

CPC’s Therapy Programs help survivors live a healthy, restored life after their traumas. We are the only no-cost provider in Sarasota County specialized in child physical and sexual abuse treatments.

Your support of the Child Protection Center makes healing, safety, and hope possible for vulnerable children. Together, we can make a difference!

• CPC’s child abuse prevention, intervention, and treatment programs reached over 65,000 individuals last year alone.

• Our popular Fall event, Night of Hope & Healing, takes place Thursday, Nov. 21st at the Venice Community Center. Visit CPCSarasota.org for info. 

• Sarasota residents can book FREE Personal Safety workshops on 20+ topics, including Internet Safety and Sexual Abuse Prevention. Contact [email protected] for info.

• We are accredited by the National Children’s Alliance and have been previously named Nonprofit of the Year by both the Sarasota and Venice Chambers of Commerce.

720 S. Orange Ave 
Sarasota, FL 34236
(941) 365-1277