Tracey Sanchez

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - St. Joseph's Mercy Health Center's Tracey Sanchez, BSW, recently completed Finding Words training - the state of Arkansas' new forensic interviewing protocol for child abuse cases - at the Shewmaker Center for Workforce Technologies in Rogers.

Consequently, Sanchez is now certified in the Finding Words program and has been using its protocol in her position as forensic interviewer-patient advocate for St. Joseph's Cooper-Anthony Mercy Child Advocacy Center.

"Our new Director at the Cooper-Anthony Mercy Child Advocacy Center, Janice McCutcheon, and Benton County Children's Advocacy Center Director Beverly Engle, are responsible for bringing Finding Words to Arkansas," said Sanchez, a Henderson State University graduate and mother of three - 21-year-old Christopher, 19-year-old Stephen and 15-year-old Ali.
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"There are components in the protocol that remove blocks for children to disclose," Sanchez said.
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Sanchez, who has been with St. Joseph's 14 years, spent her first 13 years as an Emergency Department (ED) case manager.In May of 2005, she then accepted her present position with the Cooper-Anthony Mercy Child Advocacy Center.Sanchez has a bachelor's degree in social work and earned her forensic interviewing certificate from the National Children's Advocacy Center in Huntsville, Alabama.