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To provide a coordinated community response to child abuse victims, their non-offending caregivers and victims of sexual assault.

The overall goal of the center is to ensure that children are not victimized again by the very system designed to protect them by offering: Child appropriate/child friendly facility A Multidisciplinary team Organizational capacity Cultural Competency and Diversity Medical Intervention Forensic Interviews Therapeutic Intervention Victim Support and Advocacy Case Review, Tracking and

That all children who are victims of sexual and physical abuse have advocates and resources provided to them. That all law enforcement agencies in our county use Kid's Space. That all involved agencies harmoniously work together for the sake of the children we serve. To see the justice system recognize an increase in successful prosecution of physical and sexual child abuse cases. To see a reduction in the placement of children by child protection agencies from their homes because of a reduction of abuse in our community.

Kids’ Space was the dream of a Muskogee Police Officer and an Assistant District Attorney.   They realized child abuse in Muskogee County was extremely high but yet, not a priority.  Children were being taken from agency to agency enduring multiple interviews and reliving the trauma of the abuse.

 In 1993, this police officer and assistant district attorney attended the National Symposium on Child Sexual Abuse in Huntsville, Alabama.  They visited the original Huntsville Child Advocacy Center, which was developed under the leadership of Congressman Bud Cramer, then Madison County District Attorney.  Upon seeing this organization, with its multidisciplinary team of professionals, they immediately knew this was something Muskogee County needed in order to conduct more effective and less fragmented interviews and investigations.  Also, better and more effective services could be provided with less-trauma to the child.  

In 1995 directors and administrators of community service agencies signed an agreement to work together for the betterment of children in Muskogee County and a Multidisciplinary Team was developed.  This team of professionals worked endless hours on documents, bylaws, incorporation papers and finding a facility for a child advocacy center.  A Victims of Crime Act Grant was received in June 1997 and the dream of a child advocacy center became a reality in September 1997.  In 1998 the National Children’s Alliance conducted a site visit and certified Kids’ Space as a nationally recognized children’s advocacy center.

Grants, local foundations, charities, and organizations, fund-raisers, and generous donations from the community provide funding for the programs and services. Today, there are nineteen child advocacy centers in the State of Oklahoma using a multidisciplinary approach for interviewing and investigating child abuse allegations.  Kids’ Space has four full-time employees and contracts with two part-time therapists.  There is a 15-member governing Board of Directors and a Kids’ Space Corps that provides volunteers for the center.