Nonprofit Spotlight: Child Advocacy Project In Norristown Gives Victims A Voice

Nonprofit: Montgomery County Child Advocacy Project

Founder: Wendy Demchick-Alloy and Risa Vetri Ferman

Founded: 2004

Executive Director: Mary C. Pugh

Website: mcapkids.org

Address: 409 Cherry Street

Norristown is filled with an abundance of nonprofit organizations that are working to make our neighborhoods safer, stronger, and more educated.

The Norristown Men of Excellence, EDU19401, the Carver Center, and the Norristown Project are just a few examples of the outstanding organizations working to improve the community in wide variety of ways, from education and environmental awareness to youth empowerment.

The Montgomery County Child Advocacy Project is one such organization.

The idea for the organization was born in 1999 when two Montgomery County District Attorneys - past and present - Wendy Demchick-Alloy and Risa Vetri Ferman, realized the need for child victims of abuse and neglect to have a voice.

The goal of the organization is to give “voice, healing, and security” to children by providing them with strong and reliable, and free, legal representation.

“There is nothing more rewarding than being able to tell a child, who is your client, that you are there for them and only them,” one volunteer said in a review of the organization. “No matter what they have been through with Mom, Dad, grandma, Mom’s boyfriend, Dad’s girlfriend whomever it may be that has hurt them, you, as their MCAP have no other agenda or purpose than to listen.”

“As a unique victim’s agency, MCAP provides child victims with a voice, helping them heal and learn to trust others,” their website says.

According to the Project, they have assisted nearly 4000 children since 2004, or a total of 401 children per year.