Safe Spot Child Advocacy Center Of Wilkes

Safe Spot Child Advocacy Center Of Wilkes, a tax-exempt nonprofit organization based in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, operates as a federal grant recipient providing trauma-informed forensic interview and comprehensive child advocacy services to abuse victims in rural Appalachia. The organization is a grant sub-recipient in two awards (2023, 2024) and a prime recipient in one grant (2025), with all three awards flowing from the Department of Justice Office for Victims of Crime under the Crime Victim Assistance/Discretionary Grants program (CFDA 16.582).

Safe Spot's footprint is narrowly concentrated in a single federal customer. The Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Victims of Crime accounts for 100% of recent awards — one prime grant and two sub-grants — with combined dollars obligated of $696 thousand across the three awards. The organization holds no federal contracts and does not sit on any IDIQs, GWACs, or BPAs; all activity is grant-based.

Safe Spot's primary federal work is delivering forensic interviews and victim advocacy services to children ages zero through seventeen who have experienced sexual abuse, severe physical abuse, or witnessed violence in Wilkes County. The largest award is a project grant from DOJ Office for Victims of Crime in the amount of $412,509 (October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2028) to expand capacity by hiring an additional forensic interviewer, reducing referral-to-interview wait times, and strengthening multidisciplinary team coordination among law enforcement, child protective services, prosecution, and medical and mental health providers. The two earlier sub-grants (January 2023 and January 2024, both awarded through the North Carolina Department of Public Safety) funded Safe Spot's transition to independent nonprofit status after separation from a larger organization and supported ongoing forensic interview and child medical evaluation services. Safe Spot has trained more than 1,500 adults in Stewards of Children, an evidence-informed child sexual abuse prevention curriculum, and serves approximately 100 children annually. The organization achieved National Children's Alliance accreditation in June 2021 and operates from a purpose-built facility in Wilkesboro.