As part of child abuse prevention month, we are taking a look at a new protective factor each week. Protective factors are those qualities, characteristics and supports that families have that help keep kids safe and makes families strong. This week we are talking about parental resilience. Parental resilience. Big words representing a pretty simple [...]
Parental resilience: Big words for keeping kids safe
April 16th, 2012Social connections: Parents need friends
April 10th, 2012By Heather Dawkins Stalker, special to the Children’s Trust Does this sound familiar? You are on your way home from work. You have several places to be at one time. You and your children are miles from where you need to be before you can settle into dinner and the evening routine. Everyone is hungry [...]
Keeping kids safe in South Carolina
April 9th, 2012The Children’s Trust wears many hats in our work to keep kids safe in South Carolina. At any given time we are working on safety programming through Safe Kids South Carolina and at others we are advocating on behalf of children at our statehouse. In between there are many other things we do in our [...]
Looking for the Superheroes in South Carolina that Keep Kids Safe
April 5th, 2012The Children’s Trust of South Carolina is launching a campaign to find our state’s Superheros for Prevention. We are launching this effort in April as part of Child Abuse Prevention month. Every day, every hour, dedicated organizations are working to keep South Carolina’s children safe. Sometimes this work can be hard and heart breaking, and [...]
Greenville kicks-off Child Abuse Prevention Month 2012
March 28th, 2012March 28, 2012. April is Child Abuse Prevention Month. There is much planned to raise awareness for Child Abuse Prevention — great articles, contests, prevention guides and pinwheels! Please check out on our Website. The good folks in Greenville got us started in top-notch fashion yesterday. In a very colorful ceremony at the Children’s Museum [...]
On the Safe Side | Vote in the Safety Art Contest
March 12th, 2012Safe Kids South Carolina is excited to announce the “On the Safe Side” safety series student artwork judging has begun on our Facebook page at: www.facebook.com/SafeKidsSC. Twelve elementary student winners will be chosen for each safety month of the year. The deadline to vote is Thursday, March 29. Winners will be featured on over 560,000 [...]
Safe Kids South Carolina Series Facebook Contest Rules
March 2nd, 2012“On the Safe Side” Safety Series Art Contest Contest Rules 1. Eligibility: For this art contest, all South Carolina private and public elementary school students, Kindergarten — 5th Grade were eligible to participate. Finalists were selected in each safety category by contest administrators based on relevancy and safety criteria. 2. Submission Information: Student artwork was [...]
More on the Joint Citizens and Legislative Committee on Children
December 12th, 2011By David Laird, Director of Policy and Government Affairs In the first post, we touched on the themes from the Joint Citizens and Legislative Committee on Children statewide field hearings and the upcoming release of the 2nd Annual Status of Children report due in February. As if completing the report is not enough, the committee [...]
Update on the Joint Citizens and Legislative Committee on Children
December 6th, 2011David Laird, Director of Policy and Government Affairs, shares a summary of the Joint Citizens and Legislative Committee.
Thank you Kappa Deltas
November 28th, 2011The Children’s Trust of South Carolina was extremely honored by a recent, generous donation. The Beta Zeta chapter of the Kappa Delta Sorority at the University of South Carolina presented the Children’s Trust with a check for more than $24,000. Joan Hoffman, Chief Operating Officer, and Felicia Easterlin, Director of Development, had the distinct pleasure [...]
