Compass Health Network's Children's Advocacy Center of East Central Missouri (CACECM) is a non-for-profit agency that opened its doors in November of 2000 whose mission is to provide community based collaborative effort to improve the system's response to allegations of child abuse and neglect by following the child first doctrine.

The CACECM accomplishes this through digitally-recorded forensic (fact finding) interviews, sexual abuse forensic examinations, advocacy, mental health referrals, training and coordination of multidisciplinary teams, case review and tracking and community awareness and education regarding child abuse issues.

The CACECM operates in Festus, Union and Farmington and serves a ten county region.