Staff
As a membership organization, Children's Advocacy Centers of Texas employs a staff of experienced professionals dedicated to serving the needs of its member children's advocacy centers (CACs), including advocacy, collaboration, funding, networking, evaluation and assessment, training and technical assistance, and more. Staff members bring a wealth of experience and knowledge from the non-profit management field and, in many instances, from having previously worked at local CACs throughout the state.
Executive Team
Joy Hughes Rauls
Chief Executive Officer
The Chief Executive Officer provides oversight and direction to the planning, development, and management of the daily operation of the state association. Oversees all CACTX services and activity.
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Catherine Bass
Chief Strategy Officer
The Chief Strategy Officer provides leadership and guidance for strategic initiatives to eradicate child sexual abuse and aligns the initiatives with organizational planning and governance.
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Christina Green
Chief Advancement Officer
The Chief Advancement Officer leads the integration and coordination of the organization’s communications, stakeholder relations, and resource procurement efforts.
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Natasha King
Chief Financial Officer
The Chief Financial Officer ensures CACTX has the financial strategies and infrastructure in place to achieve strategic goals that deliver on and advance the organization’s vision to eradicate child sexual abuse.
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Ellen Morrissey
Chief Program Officer
The Chief Program Officer guides the strategy, programming, and direction of our Member Initiatives and Standards of Excellence teams to support CACTX in furtherance of the organization’s vision to eradicate child sexual abuse.
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Lynn Hyde
Senior Executive Assistant
The Senior Executive Assistant supports the Executive Office in governance, people & culture, and organizational planning and performance.
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Member Initiatives
Chelsea Churchill
Director of Standards of Excellence
The Director of Standards of Excellence provides oversight and direction to CACTX’s program excellence, program compliance, and the statewide case management system.
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Alli Scharf
Program Compliance Manager
The Program Compliance Manager provides oversight on activities related to program excellence, program compliance, and the statewide case management system.
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Natalie Castillo
Program Specialist
The Program Specialist performs activities related to program excellence, program compliance, and the statewide case management system.
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Denise Perez
Program Specialist
The Program Specialist performs activities related to program excellence, program compliance, and the statewide case management system.
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Madison Swenson
Program Specialist
The Program Specialist performs activities related to program excellence, program compliance, and the statewide case management system.
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April Leming
Director of Program Services
The Director of Program Services is responsible for the development and delivery of children’s advocacy center (CAC) programming and network engagement to deliver on the strategies and impact theorized in the theory of change and strategy map.
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Kali Boucher
Member Initiatives and Event Coordinator
The Member Initiatives and Events Coordinator provides support for communications, activities, events, and programming designed to support local member centers.
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Rachel Jackson
Training Coordinator
The Training Coordinator coordinates logistics for the Training Program.
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Kasey Jackson
Program Principal
The Program Principal is a senior level staff member responsible for providing program expertise, specific to CAC direct services.
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Mikey Betancourt
Director of MDT Programming
The Director of MDT Programming provides leadership and subject matter expertise in the development, management, and optimization of multidisciplinary teams to inform policy, programming, and relationships.
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Strategy Development & Evaluation
Lindsey Jordan
Vice President of Strategy Development and Evaluation
The Vice President of Strategy Development and Evaluation is responsible for leading the development of the overall strategy to eradicate child sexual abuse in Texas.
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Amanda Barczyk
Director of Research and Evaluation
As a collaborative member of the Strategy Development and Evaluation team, the Director of Research and Evaluation is responsible for leading efforts to monitor and measure progress toward the organization’s vision of eradicating child sexual abuse.
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Alisyn Diaz
Data and Impact Senior Manager
The Data and Impact Senior Manager is responsible for executing business intelligence and evaluation efforts for CACTX.
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Sheila Bustillos
Strategy Development Principal
The Strategy Development Principal is responsible for identifying, developing, and executing high-impact, evidence-informed strategies with a focus on child sexual abuse awareness and education and collaborating with CACTX teams to develop strategies that focus on other areas, such as primary prevention of sexual offending behavior.
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Hannah Gibson-Moore
Strategy Development Principal
As a collaborative member of the Strategy Development and Evaluation team, the Strategy Development Principal is responsible for identifying, developing, and executing high-impact, evidence-informed strategies in furtherance of the organization’s vision of eradicating child sexual abuse.
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Catherine Henning
Strategy Development Specialist
The Strategy Development Specialist is responsible for supporting research, programmatic, and stakeholder engagement efforts in furtherance of the organization’s vision of eradicating child sexual abuse.
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Advancement
Justin Wood
Vice President of External Relations and General Counsel
The Vice President of External Relations and General Counsel is responsible for developing and aligning the vision, strategy, and programming of CACTX External Relations and Legal initiatives.
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Vincent A. Calderon
Vice President of Communications
The Vice President of Communications is responsible for developing and overseeing communications strategy and initiatives ensuring their alignment with the vision, strategy, and programming of CACTX to eradicate child sexual abuse.
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Katy Morris
Philanthropic Relations Manager
The Philanthropic Relations Manager provides oversight and direction for the development, coordination, and execution of CACTX’s external communications, fund development initiatives, and strategic resource procurement efforts to achieve multi-year goals.
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Michelle Klein
Institutional Partnerships Manager
Institutional Partnerships Manager stewards, maintains, and grows public and foundation funding for CACTX and partners, including the Texas children’s advocacy center (CAC) network. In addition, the IPM works collaboratively with business units across CACTX to identify, understand, and procure resource needs to achieve multi-year goals in furtherance of CACTX’s vision to eradicate child sexual abuse.
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Financial Initatives
Kaley Friedenthal
Vice President of Financial Initiatives
The Vice President of Financial Initiatives is responsible for developing and aligning the vision, strategy and programming of CACTX Financial Initiatives.
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Tiffany Coghill
Director of Grants Administration
The Director of Grants Administration manages the grant activities for the local children’s advocacy center’s contracts with CACTX, including supervision of grants staff, developing processes and procedures, application review, risk assessments, monitoring plans, and other grant related activities.
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Kelsey Getz
Grant Administrator
The Grant Administrator provides grants management, monitoring, and technical assistance for the local children’s advocacy center contracts with Children’s Advocacy Centers of Texas, payment processing, site visits, and other grant related activities.
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Jennifer Gius
Senior Grant Specialist
The Senior Grant Specialist ensures compliance of local centers through the management of the enhanced monitoring workstream, conducting monitoring activities and providing technical assistance for local centers deemed high-risk, and serving as the subject matter expert on CAC grant guidance.
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Catherine Smith
Grant Specialist
The Grant Specialist monitors local center compliance with all applicable state and federal guidelines, synthesizing and applying highly complex grant regulations to local center conditions, providing custom, membership-focused technical assistance for local centers, and managing and optimizing the CACTX Grant Management System.
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Nikki Darty
Grant Coordinator
The Grant Coordinator supports fund administration, contract administration, and monitoring and compliance activities for all state and federal pass-through funding. The Grant Coordinator is an integral part of the Grant Administration team as this role ensures all grants files and tracking systems meet grantor requirements.
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Finance Team
Daniel Soto
Vice President of Finance
The Vice President of Finance directs the activities and functions of all CACTX’s finances while ensuring compliance and execution of financial policies.
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Christian Eto
Staff Accountant
The Staff Accountant is responsible to process various financial transactions primarily, but not exclusively, payroll and accounts receivable in adherence to generally accepted accounting principles and agency policies and procedures.
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Atitaya Sritongdang
Grant Accountant
The Grant Accountant is responsible for processing various financial transactions within the general ledger system while being knowledgeable of and remaining in adherence to generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and agency policies and procedures.
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Lindsay Wahlquist
Office Manager
The CACTX Office Manager coordinates office administration and procedures to ensure organizational effectiveness, efficiency, and safety, including intra-office communication protocols, streamlining administrative processes, and inventory control.
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Operations
Arann Barnett
Vice President of Human Resources and Business Optimization
The Vice President of Human Resources & Business Optimization is responsible for ensuring CACTX has the operating strategies (people, processes and systems), in place to achieve strategic goals that deliver on and advance the organization’s vision to eradicate child sexual abuse.
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Six Core Services
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1Membership Services
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2Evaluation and Assessment
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3Collaboration
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4Advocacy
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5Community Awareness
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6Funding
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Children’s Advocacy Centers of Texas is an equal opportunity employer that offers its staff an atmosphere of professionalism, dedication, respect and competitive employee benefits. Starting out with a single staff position in 1995, CACTX now employs a full staff of talented professionals.
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