Sexually Abused Children's Relief Endeavor dba SACRED

Our main goal is to alleviate the financial stress for the families whose child or children have been sexually abused and resulted in a financial burden on the family.  We would like to someday eliminate fear of financial loss as one of the reasons for the under-reporting of the crime of child sexual abuse.

An additional goal is to reach more families through working with additional Child Advocacy Centers. We currently receive applications from 29 CACs in 11 States. This represents only 3.1% of the CAC universe.

sacred works with any Accredited Child Advocacy Center (CACs), their advocates send us an application on behalf of a family in need of financial assistance.  We have a training video, for the CACs  and have completed a series of 3 YouTube Videos that discuss why sacred was founded and explaining the need for sacred. sacred provides immediate financial assistance for families financially impacted by the reporting of child sexual abuse - sacred's Board of Directors, reviews an application and when approved will send the requested funds to the referring agency within 24 hours.  sacred has provided funds for housing, relocation, utilities, food and clothing and even funding for a family's pet if they are in danger of having to give up a much-needed emotional support.  We do not know of any other organization that can relieve the financial burdens of a family so quickly.  It takes 30-90 days for families to become connected with state assistance; sacred removes financial stress in order for the family, to be guided by their advocate, to begin a new journey without the fear of loss of income for up to 60 days.

We are limited by our size (no compensated employees) and our ability to raise funds to grant to others.  As we grow and reach more states, we will need to aggressively raise more funds and expand our reach into more counties and states.  We use social media, fund raising events, grant applications and the support of our CAC's who pass on to others the mission and work of sacred.

We currently have an Executive Vice President- Executive Director as our only "full" time volunteer.  Our President and CEO works on sacred about 20 hours per week since he has a full-time position elsewhere.  We are proud to have raised over $1,100,000 since our founding and have helped 340 families.  Our Board of Directors expanded from 3 originally to 7 in 2017, with a varied background, they dedicate their time and money to support sacred and the children that we serve.  The long-term goal is always called "because all kids are sacred" for every project or grant that we present.  We are an ongoing program, because child sexual abuse is an ongoing tragedy, and families are always need assistance to meet financial commitments, to help them to move forward from "victim" to "survivor".  sacred provides the opportunity of removing the financial stress as they move forward.